DonaldGuthrie’sNewTestamentIntroductionhasestablisheditselfasthebenchmarkevangelicalintroductiontotheNewTestamentsinceitsfirstpublicationin1971anditsrevisededitiondecadeslater.Withthemostupdatedversionnowavailableinpaperback,thiswidelyacclaimedreferenceworkprovidesafixedpointforsurveyingtheterrainoftheNewTestamentanditsinterpreters.Acarefulrecastingofabenchmarkevangelicalwork,NewTestamentIntroductionprovidesafixedpointforsurveyingthebooksoftheNewTestament.Notingtheissuesraisedbydecadesofbiblicalscholarship,Guthrieengagestheissuesofauthorshipandauthenticity,purposeandstructure,historicalcontextandculturalsetting.Inthesediscussions,aswellasinthenotesandbibliographies,hedrawsonawealthofrecentscholarlyresearchwhichgivesaddedvaluetothisclassicresource.
