The Old Is Better: New Testament Essays in Support of Traditional Interpretations

Current study of the New Testament features many new interpretations. Robert Gundrys book finds them largely wanting and defends traditional ones. Several of its essays have never been published before. Most of the rest though previously published have been updated and otherwise revised sometimes heavily. The studies cover a wide variety of topics in New Testament study ranging from the Gospels to Revelation and much in between as for example theological diversity symbiosis between theology and genre criticism pre-Papian tradition concerning Mark and Matthew as apostolically Johannine and mishnaic jurisprudence as compatible with Jesus blasphemy. In its entirety this collection of essays shows the weaknesses of many novel interpretations of the New Testament as well as the essential reliability of earliest traditions concerning the New Testament and the essential reliability of New Testament traditions themselves.