An introduction to the New Testament in classic format, Schnelle's book presents full and up-to-date information about the individual writings with respect to date, author, place of writing, structure of the document, current scholarships, themes and theological aims.

The book, intended to supersede W. G. Kummel's introduction, informs the reader of all the important historical issues and describes the range of scholarly opinion and literature, preparing the reader to pass judgment. After providing an overview of the development of the New Testament canon, Schnelle then takes up, in turn:...

The first part-volume of the New Wettstein on the Gospel of Matthew covers chapters 1-10. Special emphasis is on the childhood history and the texts on the Sermon on the Mount. Here it is remarkable how many striking and interesting parallels exist in the history of religion. They document how deeply even the Jewish Christian Gospel of Matthew was embedded in the religious and philosophical debates of Hellenism.

Paul's writings are centrally important not only for the establishment of the Christian faith but for the whole history of Western culture. The original German edition of Udo Schnelle's work has established itself as a leading introduction to Paul in Europe. Now in Eugene Boring's translation, and with his bibliographic revisions, it represents the state of the art in the English-speaking world.
This comprehensive critical introduction combines historical and theological analysis. After essential methodological preliminaries, the first half of the book constructs Paul's biography: his...

Dieses Lehrbuch entfaltet das Denken des Paulus vor dem Hintergrund seines Lebens. Der erste Hauptteil behandelt das Leben und die Briefe, im zweiten Hauptteil folgt eine thematisch strukturierte Darstellung der zentralen Themen des paulinischen Denkens, das so gleichermaen in seiner historischen Genese und in seiner Systemqualitat erfat wird. In Aufnahme der neueren wissenssoziologischen und geschichtstheoretischen Diskussion wird die paulinische Theologie als eine Sinnbildung verstanden, die sich durch hohe Anschlufahigkeit auszeichnet. Trotz zahlreicher denkerischer Probleme und widriger...