From Jesus to the New Testament

Jens Schroeter is Professor for Exegesis and Theology of the New Testament and New Testament Apocrypha at the Faculty of Theology at the Humboldt-University in Berlin. Wayne Coppins is Professor of Religion at The University of Georgia. Simon Gathercole is Reader in New Testament Studies at the University of Cambridge.

Editors' Introduction
Preface to the English Edition
Preface to the German Edition
Introduction
Part I: Recollection and History in Early Christianity
1 New Testament Science beyond Historicism
2 Reflections on the Relationship between Historiography and Hermeneutics in New Testament Science
3 Construction of History and the Beginnings of Christianity
4 History in Light of the Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ
Part II: Jesus--Paul--Luke
5 Beginnings of the Jesus Tradition
6 On the Historicity of the Gospels
7 The Unity of the Gospel
8 The Universalizing of the Law in Galatians
9 Metaphorical Christology in Paul
10 Luke as Historiographer
11 Salvation for the Gentiles and Israel
Part III: On the Way to the New Testament
12 Jesus and the Canon
13 The Acts of the Apostles and the Emergence of the New Testament Canon
14 "The Church Has Four Gospels, the Heresy Many"
Part IV: What Is "Theology of the New Testament"?
15 Particularity and Inclusivity in Early Christianity
16 The Meaning of the Canon for a Theology of the New Testament
Bibliography
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Modern Authors
Subject Index