
The Synoptic Gospels
A Introduction
Keith F. Nickle(Author)
SCM Press
Published on 8. June 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-334-01565-9 (ISBN)
Description
The Synoptic Gospels usefully fills the gap between the brief treatments of the synoptics to be found in New Testament introductions, and exhaustive commentaries. Taking into account the many important advances made in the study of the gospels in recent years, not least the new questions being asked, Dr Nickle writes especially for the non-specialist and the teacher or student who values clarity and objectivity.
He begins by sketching the process by which the earliest Christians retold selectively some of the stories they remembered about Jesus. He considers how they, and other early Christians after them, interpreted and adapted those stories to meet the needs of their communities. He then enquires after the motives and the concerns which prompted each of the first three evangelists to compose their narrative versions of the public ministry and death
of Jesus.
The book does not try to cover the whole content of the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke. Rather, it places before the reader preliminary considerations which will inform and enrich reflections that occur as the content of the documents is investigated. So this is really a prelude, a preface to gospel study, which holds the reader's interest to the end and whets the appetite for more.
He begins by sketching the process by which the earliest Christians retold selectively some of the stories they remembered about Jesus. He considers how they, and other early Christians after them, interpreted and adapted those stories to meet the needs of their communities. He then enquires after the motives and the concerns which prompted each of the first three evangelists to compose their narrative versions of the public ministry and death
of Jesus.
The book does not try to cover the whole content of the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke. Rather, it places before the reader preliminary considerations which will inform and enrich reflections that occur as the content of the documents is investigated. So this is really a prelude, a preface to gospel study, which holds the reader's interest to the end and whets the appetite for more.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
259 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-334-01565-9 (9780334015659)
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Keith F. Nickle was born in 1933 at Keokuk, Iowa. He studied at Texas A. & M. College from 1951-53 and then transferred to the University of Texas in Austin where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1955. In 1958 he was awarded the Bachelor of Divinity degree after three years' study at the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. He was ordained in 1958 and served as minister of the First Presbyterian Church, Navasota, Texas, until 1960 when he left to begin his doctoral examination in 1963. While in Basel, he studied under Professors Cullmann, Karl Barth and Walther Eichrodt.