Ancient Literature for New Testament Studies is a multivolume series that seeks to introduce key ancient texts that form the cultural, historical, and literary context for the study of the New Testament.

Each volume will feature introductory essays to the corpus, followed by articles on the relevant texts. Each article will address introductory matters, provenance, summary of content, interpretive issues, key passages for New Testament studies and their significance.

Neither too technical to be used by students nor too thin on interpretive information to be useful for serious study of the New Testament, this series provides a much-needed resource for understanding the New Testament in its first-century Jewish and Greco-Roman context. Produced by an international team of leading experts in each corpus, Ancient Literature for New Testament Studies stands to become the standard resource for both scholars and students. Volumes include:

1. Apocrypha and the Septuagint
2. Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
3. The Dead Sea Scrolls
4. The Apostolic Fathers
5. Philo and Josephus
6. Greco-Roman Literature
7. Targums and Early Rabbinic Literature
8. Gnostic Literature
9. New Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

About the Author
James R. Harrison is distinguished professor at the Sydney College of Divinity. He has worked extensively with ancient documents, writing or editing several volumes, including New Documents Illustrating the History of Early Christianity (volumes 11-15), and The First Urban Churches (volumes 1-5). E. Randolph Richards is research professor of New Testament at Palm Beach Atlantic University. Richards has written many books, including Paul and First-Century Letter Writing, Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes, and Rediscovering Jesus. Craig A. Evans (PhD, Claremont; DHabil, Budapest) is the John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins at Houston Baptist University. Author and editor of more than ninety books and hundreds of articles and reviews, Evans has lectured at major universities worldwide and has regularly appeared on Dateline NBC, CBC, CTV, Day of Discovery, and in many documentaries aired on BBC, The Discovery Channel, History Channel, History Television, and National Geographic Channel speaking on the historical Jesus, the New Testament Gospels, archaeology, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Bible. Cecilia Wassen associate professor of New Testament at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research focuses on early Judaism, the early Jesus movement in its Jewish context, and women in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Adela Yarbro Collins (PhD, Harvard) is Buckingham Professor Emerita of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School. She is the author of Mark in the Hermeneia Commentary series, The Beginning of the Gospel: Probings of Mark in Context. John J. Collins (PhD, Harvard) is Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School. He has authored or edited numerous books, including The Scepter and the Star: Messianism in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview, coedited with Daniel C. Harlow. Grant Macaskill (PhD, University of St. Andrews) holds the Kirby Laing Chair of New Testament Exegesis at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He was previously Senior Lecturer in New Testament at the University of St. Andrews, where he had completed both his doctoral and postdoctoral projects. His research engages with the New Testament as a coherent body of theological literature emerging from the diverse contexts of late Second Temple Judaism. He is author of Union with Christ in the New Testament (Oxford, 2014). Nathan C. Johnson (PhD, Princeton) is assistant professor of religion at the University of Indianapolis. He is the author of The Suffering Son of David in Matthew's Passion Narrative.


Book Information
ISBN 9780310528906
Author James R Harrison
Format Hardback
Page Count 656
Imprint Zondervan Academic
Publisher Zondervan