- Publisher: I.B. Tauris
- Year: 2014
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 256pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 215x137mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.2kg
- ISBN: 9781780766089
- Product code: 530213
A Short History of the New Testament
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‘The New Testament is a small book that changed the world’, and to substantiate that claim Halvor Moxnes’ ‘short history’ begins with Jesus, his followers, the earliest writings about his life teachings and how these became the New Testament. In Part 2, he examines the reception of the book and how it became so influential within and beyond the Christian Church; and Part 3 discusses how New Testament scholarship has changed over time.
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Few documents in world history can match the inspirational impact of the New Testament. For all its variety - gospels, letters and visions - this firstcentury collection of texts keeps always at its centre the enigmatic figure of Joshua/Jesus: the Jewish prophet who gathered a group around him, proclaimed the imminent end of the world, but was made captive by the authorities of Rome only to suffer a shameful criminal's death on a cross. When his followers (including former persecutor Saul/Paul) became convinced that Jesus had defeated extinction, and had risen again to fresh life, the movement crossed over from Palestine to ignite the entire Greco-Roman Mediterranean world. The author shows how the writings of this vibrant new faith came into being from oral transmission and then became the pillar of a great world religion. He explores their many varied usages in music, liturgy, art, language and literature. In discussing its textual origins, as well as its later reception, Moxnes shows above all how the New Testament has been employed both as a tool for liberation and as a means of power and control.
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‘The New Testament is a small book that changed the world’, and to substantiate that claim Halvor Moxnes’ ‘short history’ begins with Jesus, his followers, the earliest writings about his life teachings and how these became the New Testament. In Part 2, he examines the reception of the book and how it became so influential within and beyond the Christian Church; and Part 3 discusses how New Testament scholarship has changed over time.
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