E. P. Sanders offers a comprehensive study of Paul's life and work, drawing on a lifetime of studying Christianity's most controversial apostle, a rabbi who became the apostle to the Gentiles

Drawing on recent scholarship on the Pauline tradition within early Christianity, this book examines Paul's theology of baptism and highlights its practical application in ministry today.

Invites readers who struggle to engage with Paul's writings to take a look and to rediscover the relevance of one of Christianity's maligned writers for Church. This book shows how the findings of modern biblical scholarship need not be confined to...

The first completely new introduction to the New Testament to appear from Germany since the 1970s and likely to replace the standard work by W.G. Kümmel. Provides a comprehensive account of the current state of scholarship.

How the early Christians saw themselves in relation to their community according to the evidence provided by the Gospel-writers.

Most college and seminary courses on the New Testament include discussions of the process that gave shape to the New Testament. Now David Dungan re-examines the primary source for this history, the Ecclesiastical History of the fourth-century Bishop...

Offers an introduction to the area of theological study. Aimed at level one students, this work covers the main areas tackled in introductory New Testament courses, such as the contents and diversity of the New Testament, how the texts came to be...

Preface By Stanley J GrenzWolfhart Pannenberg is one of the giants of twentieth century German systematic theology, and all serious students of Christian doctrine are obliged to take account of his work. In particular, his weighty but succinct...