The Birthing of the New Testament: The Intertextual Development of the New Testament Writings: No. 1 (New Testament Monographs): 0 - Softcover

Brodie, Thomas L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1905048661 ISBN 13: 9781905048663

Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

Many are saying that the prevailing paradigm of New Testament origins is going nowhere. In its place, Brodie's stunning book invites us to suspend all 'knowledge' we already have about the history of the New Testament's development, and to be willing to entertain the following thesis. Everything hinges on Proto-Luke, a history of Jesus using the Elijah-Elisha narrative as its model, which survives in 10 chapters of Luke and 15 of Acts. Mark then uses Proto-Luke, transposing its Acts material back into the life of Jesus. Matthew deuteronomizes Mark, John improves on the discourses of Matthew. Luke-Acts spells out the story at length. Add the Pauline corpus, the descendant of Deuteronomy via the Matthean logia, and the New Testament is virtually complete. This is a totalizing theory, an explanation of everything, and its critics will be numerous. But even they will be hugely intrigued, and have to admit that Brodie's myriads of challenging observations about literary affinities demand an answer.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1905048661
• ISBN 13: 9781905048663
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 688