The ten essays in this volume, written by leading international scholars, provide an innovative analysis of the methods of comparison frequently deployed in the study of the New Testament. The contributors reflect on the possibility and validity of the comparative exercise, on the methods that are most effective and intellectually defensible, on the purposeof such comparison, and on its perils and piftalls. Addressing these questions at both a theoretical and hermeneutical level, and through case studies of actual examples, ...
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The ten essays in this volume, written by leading international scholars, provide an innovative analysis of the methods of comparison frequently deployed in the study of the New Testament. The contributors reflect on the possibility and validity of the comparative exercise, on the methods that are most effective and intellectually defensible, on the purposeof such comparison, and on its perils and piftalls. Addressing these questions at both a theoretical and hermeneutical level, and through case studies of actual examples, scholars including Troels Engberg-Pedersen, Margaret M. Mitchell, Francis Watson and C. Kavin Rowe discuss such matters as the necessity of anachronism, relational hermeneutics,a nd the place of the New Testament in its Christian literary environment. This book provides a long-awaited, up-to-date methodological resource for the numerous comparative projects spawned by New Testament studies throughout the world. --Back Cove
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