Ancestor worship in contemporary Japan

NORMAN PERRIN, University of Chicago Written by a leading New Testament scholar, this concise, perceptive introduction to the New Testament reflects the insights of the theologian, the historian of religion, the literary critic, and the philosopher of language. It uses the most modern methods of New Testament scholarship and incorporates such recent developments as the discoveries of the Qumran texts and the Nag Hammadi codices. Professor Perrin has carefully structured the book to be read in close conjunction with the New Testament texts themselves; to facilitate the student's immediate contact with the texts, he provides background material in a series of appendices rather than at the beginning of the book. Included in the appendices are descriptions of the Hellenic world, the situation of the Jewish people during New Testament times, the development of the canon of the Bible, sources for the text of the New Testament, and a discussion of English translations of the New Testament. Paperbound. 385 pages