The Parousia in the New Testament

Books about The Parousia in the New Testament

The traditional belief that Christ will come again to judge both the quick and the dead has been subjected to severe criticism in recent times. It has been regarded as part of Tesus inheritance from his situation as the misunderstanding of the disciples falsely attributing to their Lord their own

Books about The Parousia in the New Testament

Contents are the theological conceptions of the authors of the New Testament, considered from systematic viewpoints, in the following sequence: Paul, the synoptics (Jesus, the saying-source), the Johannine literature (including the Apocalypse of John), the deutero-Pauline writings, the catholic epistles.

These essays examine the intertexture of apocalyptic discourse in the New Testament: what the discourse represents, refers to, and uses of outside phenomena. Intertexture includes references in the Hebrew Bible, intertestamental and Greco-Roman texts, and social and cultural phenomena. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).