This textbook on how to read the Gospels well can stand on its own as a guide to Reading this New Testament genre as Scripture.
He is the author of Heaven and Earth in the Gospel of Matthew and has published a number of tools for learning biblical languages, including New Testament Greek Vocabulary and Old Testament Hebrew Vocabulary..
Andrews) is associate professor of New Testament interpretation and director of research doctoral studies at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
Pennington (Ph D, University of St.
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Rather, he offers critically aware and hermeneutically intelligent instruction in Reading the Gospels in order to hear their witness to Christ in a way that supports Christian application and proclamation.
Pennington neither dismisses nor duplicates the results of current historical-critical work on the Gospels as historical sources.
Most textbooks tend to introduce students to historical-critical concerns but may be less adequate for showing how the Gospel narratives, read as Scripture within the canonical framework of the entire New Testament and the whole Bible, yield material for Theological reflection and moral edification.
It is also ideally suited to serve as a supplemental text to more conventional textbooks that discuss each Gospel systematically.
This textbook on how to read the Gospels well can stand on its own as a guide to Reading this New Testament genre as Scripture
