“The editors and contributors of this book are to be congratulated for producing a unique and invaluable volume, containing an enormous amount of essential, upto-date information for the interpretation of the New Testament. Here students will not only learn of the history of the New Testament but also discover helpful paths through the dense thicket of contemporary hermeneutics—all excellently done and attractively presented.” — Donald A. Hagner author of The New Testament: A Historical and Theological Introduction “Mitternacht, Runesson, and their contributors have produced a magnificent introductory textbook on the earliest social, historical, and textual contexts of devotion to Jesus, with due attention given also to the intricacies of interpretation. This book is comprehensive and authoritative, but never at the expense of accessibility. I will be assigning this book to my students at the first opportunity.” — Chris Keith St. Mary’s University, Twickenham “New Testament scholarship is and has always been international and multilingual. Consequently, for more than a decade now, one of the very best introductions to the New Testament has been available only in Swedish: Dieter Mitternacht and Anders Runesson’s Jesus och de första kristna (2006). But now, thanks to R ebecca Runesson and Noah Runesson’s deft translation, this revised and expanded edition of the book is accessible to those of us who speak English but not (yet) Swedish. The twenty-two contributors are a who’s who of Scandinavian biblical scholarship, and the emphasis on hermeneutics as well as history is an especially inspired feature.” — Matthew V. Novenson University of Edinburgh “Whereas the vast majority of introductions to the New Testament are more than content simply to describe the contents and contexts of the twenty-seven documents that comprise the same, in Jesus, the New Testament, and Christian Origins, twenty-two skillful Scandinavian scholars, led by editors Dieter Mitternacht and Anders Runesson, not only orient students to the New Testament and its bewildering world but also illustrate how these fascinating texts can continue to be interpreted and appropriated in variegated ways. The upshot of this expansive, extensive edited volume is nothing less than a valuable, accessible reference resource for those who are wanting and willing to grapple with the meaning(s) of the New Testament.” — Todd D. Still George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University
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