For over forty years, this widely acclaimed introduction to the New Testament weds literary and historical approaches to focus on the New Testament's structure and meaning. Esteemed New Testament scholars Robert A. Spivey, D. Moody Smith, and C. Clifton Black provide teachers and students with a reading of early Christian literature that is at once systematic, critical and reliable in its scope and content. Previously published by Pearson/Prentice Hall, Fortress Press is now proud to represent this classic introduction!
I picked up the 4th edition of this wonderful book quite by chance at a used book sale. I was thoroughly impressed by both it's scholarship and also the simple, easy-to-follow-along format in which the entirety of the NT was presented. That this book is published by McMillan and Co., a secular publisher, is equally surprising, and is indicative of how well-received this book has been by those never before exposed to the reality of the Biblical gospel message for today. If you want to better witness your fai..
