Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One Jesus and the Gospels -- Chapter One The Humanity of Jesus: What's at Stake in the Quest for the Historical Jesus? -- Chapter Two Learning the Human Jesus: Historical Criticism and Literary Criticism -- Chapter Three A Historiographical Response to Wright's Jesus -- Chapter Four The Jesus of the Gospels and Philosophy -- Chapter Five Jesus among the Philosophers -- Chapter Six Does a Theology of the Canonical Gospels Make Sense? -- Part Two Luke-Acts -- Chapter Seven On Finding the Lukan Community: A Cautious Cautionary Essay -- Chapter Eight The Christology of Luke-Acts -- Chapter Nine The Lukan Kingship Parable -- Chapter Ten The Social Dimensions of Sōtēria in Luke-Acts and Paul -- Chapter Eleven Literary Criticism of Luke-Acts -- Chapter Twelve Narrative Criticism and Translation: The Case of the NRSV -- Chapter Thirteen Narrative Perspectives on Luke 16:19-31 -- Part Three Paul -- Chapter Fourteen Romans 3:21-26 and the Faith of Jesus -- Chapter Fifiteen Transformation of the Mind and Moral Discernment in Paul -- Chapter Sixteen Life-Giving Spirit: The Ontological Implications of Resurrection in 1 Corinthians -- Chapter Seventeen The Body in Question: The Social Complexities of Resurrection in 1 Corinthians -- Chapter Eighteen Paul's Ecclesiology -- Chapter Nineteen 2 Timothy and the Polemic Against False Teachers: A Re-examination -- Chapter Twenty Oikonomia Theou: The Theological Voice of 1 Timothy from the Perspective of Pauline Authorship -- Chapter Twenty-One 1 Timothy 1:1-20 The Shape of the Struggle -- Part Four Other NT Compositions -- Chapter Twenty-Two The Scriptural World of Hebrews -- Chapter Twenty-Three Hebrews 10:32-39 and the Agony of the Translator -- Chapter Twenty-Four Reading Wisdom Wisely -- Chapter Twenty-Five God Ever New, Ever the Same.

Chapter Twenty-Six John and Thomas in Context -- Part Five Issues in Christian Origins -- Chapter Twenty-Seven Koinonia: Diversity and Unity in Early Christianity -- Chapter Twenty-Eight The New Testament's Anti-Jewish Slander and the Conventions of Ancient Polemic -- Chapter Twenty-Nine Anti-Judaism and the New Testament -- Chapter Thirty Religious Rights and Christian Texts -- Chapter Thirty-One Proselytism and Witness in Earliest Christianity -- Chapter Thirty-Two The Bible after the Holocaust: A Response to Emil Fackenheim -- Chapter Thirty-Three Law in Early Christianity -- Chapter Thirty-Four The Complex Witness of the New Testament Concerning Marriage, Family, and Sexuality -- Chapter Thirty-Five Making Connections: The Material Expression of Friendship in the New Testament -- Indices -- Ancient Author Index -- Modern Author Index -- Scripture Index -- Subject Index.

In Contested Issues in Christian Origins and the New Testament, Luke Timothy Johnson offers a series of independent studies on a range of critical questions from the historical Jesus to sexuality and law.

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