The New Testament : a literary history
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The New Testament : a literary history
Fortress Press, c2012
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Die Entstehung des Neuen Testaments als literaturgeschichtliches Problem
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Bibliography: p. 291-301
Includes index
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Gerd Theissen describes the emergence of the New Testament canon out of the wide variety of early Christian literature, drawing on Max Webers discussion of the evolution of religious organizations. Theissen describes a series of phases in the life of the early Christian movement: the charismatic, the pseudepigraphic, the functional, and the canoni
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