The Background of the New Testament and its Eschatology

Part I. Towards an understanding of the background of the New Testament; 1. The task of exegesis E. C. Blackman; 2. The effect of recent textual criticism upon New Testament studies K. W. Clark; 3. Gnosis, Gnosticism and the New Testament R. P Casey; 4. The mythological background of New Testament Christology H. Riesenfeld; 5. The economic background of the New Testament F. C. Grant; 6. Die ebionitische Wahrheit des Christentums H.J. Schoeps; 7. Reflections on Archbishop Carrington's The Primitive Christian Calendar W. D. Davies; 8. Recent discoveries in Palestine and the Gospel of St John W. F. Albright; 9. The account of the Essenes in Hippolytus and Josephus M. Black; Septuagintal studies in the mid-century. Their links with the past and their present tendencies P. Katz; Part II. Towards an understanding of the eschatology of the New Testament; 11. The life of Jesus: some tendencies in present-day research T. W. Manson; 12. Enderwartung und Kirche im Matthausevangelium G. Bornkanm; 13. Le sens du mot Parousie dans l'Evangile de Matthieu. Comparaison entre Matth. A. Feuillet; 14. Agnostos Christos E. Stauffer; 15. Acts and eschatology H. J. Cadbury; 16. Le caractere,a la fois actuel et futur, du salut dans la theologie paulinienne M. Goguel; 17. Breves remarques sur la notion de … H. Clavier; 18. The eschatology of the epistle to the Hebrews C. K. Barrett; 19. Eschatology in I Peter E. G. Selwyn; 20. The Bible To-Day und died eschatology R. Bultmann; 21. Eschatology and missions in the New Testament O. Cullmann; 22. Christ, Creation and the Church N. A. Dahl; 23. Eschatologie biblique et idealisme platonicien J. Hering; 24. The judgement theme in the sacraments C. F. D. Moule; 25. Gegenwart des Geistes und eschatologische Hoffnung bei Zarathustra, spatjudischen Gruppen, Gnostikern und den Zuegen des Neuen Testamentes E. Schweizer; 26. Kerygma, eschatology and social ethics A. N. Wilder; Index.