Resources for New Testament Studies

General NT (Introduction, Background, etc.)

This page contains external links to helpful, technical articles on matters related to the study of the New Testament. This page lists only content articles/pages. Links to other sites that contain links related to biblical studies, etc. are on my Links page. See the explanatory notes on the main page, including .pdf file explanation. I welcome submissions and suggestions.

• NT Backgrounds (The following three sites are PhD class projects from my NT Backgrounds class.)
  • Doctrines of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Gary Gromacki)
  • The Apocrypha (Wayne Slusser) (alt direct link to his Apocrypha material)
  • Apoclyptic Literature (Roger DePriest) (semi-final draft as of 8/8/03; final version of these pages should be posted by 8/11/03)
• ANRW, Aufstieg und Neiderang der romischen Welt (= Rise and Decline of the Roman World) keyword searchable index (U/Kentucky's classics dept.); select bibliography of ANRW articles directly related to NT studies (on this site)
• Apostolic Fathers Lookup (Rick Brannan)
• Interactive Ancient Mediterranean (an on-line atlas of the ancient Mediterranean world)
• A. T. Robertson, Word Pictures (complete set on-line)
• An Introduction to the New Testament (Richard Heard)
• The Story of the New Testament (Edgar J. Goodspeed [The University of Chicago Press])
  
• Josephus' Writings and Their Relation to the New Testament (Greg Herrick)
• The Flavius Josephus Home Page (G. J. Goldberg) Deals particularly with the "Testimonium Flavianum," though there is other material, including a comprehensive set of Josephus links .
• H. B. Swete, Josephus on Alexander's Visit To Jerusalem, The Expository Times 3 (1892) 300.427.
• The New Testament and Greco-Roman Mystery Religions (Greg Herrick)
• Second Temple Synagogues (Donald D. Binder; based on his 1997 diss. at So. Method. Univ., includes a large quantity of information, images, and links.)
• New Testament Visuals (Kelley N. Coblentz; a helpful collection of photographs, etc. related to the NT.)
• Palestine in the Time of Jesus: Social Structures and Social Conflicts (K. C. Hanson and Douglas E. Oakman) This is a web resource page designed to accompany the author's new (1998) book by the same title.
• Capernaum (Stanisalo Loffreda) An interesting presentation of the archaeological work by the Franciscans at Capernaum; includes numerous photos.
• "The Galilean Fishing Economy and the Jesus Tradition" (K. C. Hanson) [article from Biblical Theology Bulletin 1997]
• Proclamation of Nero's Succession as Roman Emperor (K. C. Hanson)
• A Taste of the Ancient World: an exhibit about Greco-Roman eating and drinking, farming and starving presented by undergraduates in Classical Civilization 452: Food in the Ancient World (Univ. of Michigan); The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, October 24th, 1996 - July 21st, 1997.
• The New Testament and Its Context (Barry D. Smith)
• Jewish Coins (This is a commercial, collectors' site, but contains some good photos of coins relevant to NT study.)
• Virtual Jerusalem Tour (Hebrew Univ.)
• Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity (Walter Bauer) I disagree vigorously with Bauer's thesis, but this has been a very influential work and since it is available in full text form, I'm including it here.
• Into His Own, Perspective on the World of Jesus (Mahlon H. Smith, Rutgers University) A large and wide-ranging collection of materials, mostly relevant extracts from primary source material, related to the social, historical, and religious background of the NT. Also includes helpful secondary material that summaries the following people: Josephus, The Hasmonean Dynasty, The House of Herod, The House of Caesar, Roman Rulers, Persona in Rabbinic Tradition; as well as these additional items: Map: Land of Israel in 1st c. CE, Historic Sites, Dead Sea Scrolls, etc. (For topics not linked, see the main URL just above and scroll to the bottom of the page.)
• The Jewish Roman World of Jesus (James D. Tabor)

• TACITUS' FRAGMENT 2: THE ANTI-ROMAN MOVEMENT OF THE CHRISTIANI AND THE NAZOREANS (Eric Laupot)

• The Nicene and Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creeds in Greek, parallel column format (requires Unicode polytonic Greek font/display capabilities)

• Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, Cambridge Seminar for NT PhD students (Prof. G. N. Stanton) 2002-2003, This web page has been created alongside a series of seminars for PhD students in NT studies held in the Divinity Faculty of the University of Cambridge. The purpose of the seminar is to read Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History with one eye on its relevance for New Testament studies.

• John Calvin's commentary on the NT (full text)

Misc. items less directly related to the NT

• Images of Orality and Literacy in Greek Iconography of the Fifth, Fourth and Third Centuries BCE (Andrew Wiesner: The following is a growing collection of images (with some explanatory text) that may be used in studying how the Greeks conceived of their invention and assimilation of their technologies of writing.)
• Some manuscript images of the technology of the word in the Middle Ages (James O'Donnel)

NT Biblical Theology

• Bibliography of New Testament Biblical Theology. Compiled as part of the materials for one of the PhD classes that I teach.
• The Idea of Biblical Theology as a Science and as a Theological Discipline (Gerhardus Vos)
• The Atonement in Lucan Theology in Recent Discussion (Greg Herrick)
• The Historical Veracity of the Resurrection Narratives (Greg Herrick)
• Reformed Confessionalism and the "New Perspective" on Paul: A New Challenge to a Fundamental Article of Faith, Dr. Kim Riddlebarger
• Does the New Testament Teach Two Prophetic Gifts?  F. David Farnell (Bibliotheca Sacra 150 (January-March 1993): 62-88) <Link broken? was: <http://www.why.net/users/dgreen/charismata/farnell3.htm>
• Fallible NT Prophecy/Prophets? A Critique of Wayne Grudem's Hypothesis F. David Farnell
• My Understanding of the Biblical Doctrine of Election (Daniel B. Wallace)
• Paul's Contradictions--Can They Be Resolved? (John G. Gager) You may not agree with much of this article (I have my disagreements with him!), but it is a useful article that grapples with a problem felt by many contemporary scholars.
• The Kingdom in Matthew (D. Matthew Allen )
• The Two Greatest Miracles of the Gospel History (H. B. Swete) A paper read at the Northampton Church Congress, The Expository Times 14 (1902) 214-217. (The "2 miracles" to which reference is made  in the title are the conception and the resurrection of Jesus.)
• Biblical Theology in Crisis (Brevard S. Childs; Philadelphia: Westminster, 1970)
• Christ the Wisdom of God. A sermon preached in the Chapel of Selwyn College, at the opening service of the Clergy Summer Meeting (July 13, 1903) by H. B. Swete, The Expository Times 15 (1903) 58-62. (Col. 2:2-3; 1 Cor. 1:23-24)
• Does The Believer Have One Nature Or Two? (Wm. Combs)

Applied NT biblical theology

• Polity and the Elder Issue. (Rodney J. Decker) Grace Theological Journal 9.2 (Fall 1988): 257?77. A .pdf copy is now available on this site. (136K) This was my first published article, written over a dozen years ago. Though I would perhaps approach it somewhat differently today, my basic position in unchanged.
• May Women be Deacons? A Prelude to Dialogue (Daniel B. Wallace)
• Fishing in the NT: A Misunderstood Analogy for Evangelism (Daniel B. Wallace)
• Deacons and the Leadership of the Church (Daniel B. Wallace)
• Who Should Run the Church? A Case for the Plurality of Elders (Daniel B. Wallace)
• What It Takes to Lead the Church (Daniel B. Wallace)

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