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The Making of the New Testament Documents

Name: The Making of the New Testament Documents
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Author: E. Earle Ellis
ISBN: 9780391041684

by E. Earle Ellis

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544 pages
Publisher: Brill
15.5 x 23.3 x 3 cm

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For students of early Christian history and origins

Critiques critical orthodoxy on New Testament dates

Discover new perspectives on apostolic authorship

A fresh, scholarly investigation into the origins, authorship, and dating of the New Testament documents.

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Do we really know who wrote the New Testament documents? Do we really know when they were written? Scholars have long debated these fundamental questions. This volume identifies and investigates literary traditions and their implications for the authorship and dating of the Gospels and the letters of the New Testament. Departing from past scholarship, E. Earle Ellis argues that the Gospels and the letters are products of the corporate authorship of four allied apostolic missions and not just the creation of individual authors. The analysis of literary traditions also has implications for the dating of New Testament documents. Providing a critique of the current critical orthodoxy with respect to the dating of New Testament documents, Ellis weighs the patristic traditions more heavily and more critically than has been done in the past. Ellis's new reconstruction of the origin of the New Testament documents provides better answers than have been previously proposed to a number of critical questions. Ellis provides a comprehensive historical reconstruction of the process by which the gospel message became the Gospel books. His arguments, if persuasive, will require a reassessment of the history of early Christianity. Please note that The Making of the New Testament Documents was previously published by Brill in hardback, ISBN 90 04 11332 0 (no longer available).