Books by Barnabas Lindars

The effort to get behind the fourth gospel is no mere literary-critical game. The value we place upon it is inseparable from the way in which we understand its origins. The true relation to the Gospel to the beginnings of Christianity remains unsettled question of New Testament scholarship.Barnabas Lindars discusses the attempts to identify continuous sources, among them the ""discourse source"" emphasized by Bultmann, and the ""signs source"" recently reconstructed by R. T. Fortna. A more promising approach, he thinks, lies in considering John's technique as a writer who builds upon the primitive tradition--first in the discourses, then when miracle stories are used in conjunction with discourse, then in extended narrative. This provides the vantage point for a survey of the Gospel as a whole, from which its unknown author emerges as essentially a preacher, who presents the authentic challenge of the message of Jesus in a work of immense creative skill and compelling theological power.

The editors have grouped the studies in this volume around the themes 'Christ and Spirit', two of the most controversial areas in current New Testament study, which are also the areas with which Professor Moule has been most concerned as editor, author and teacher. All the contributions are original and have been specifically commissioned from an impressive team of international scholars.

This is a short, up-to-date volume, concise yet comprehensive, on the New Testament text. It has been designed to meet your needs and includes items such as an introduction to the contents of the particular biblical book, a balanced survey of the important critical issues, suggestions about critical appropriation of the text by the contemporary reader, and much more.

The Letter to the Hebrews is of particular significance for the most important explanation of the sacrificial death of Christ contained in the New Testament. Here, Lindars explains the circumstances in which it was written. The concluding chapters show the place of Hebrews in the context of the development of early Christianity, and indicate the lasting value of Hebrews for theology today.