Gundry - A Survey of the New Testament: 4th Edition

A SURVEY OF
THE NEW TESTAMENT

4th edition

A SURVEY OF THE
NEW TESTAMENT

ROBERT H .
GUNDRY

ZONDERVAN

A Survey of the New Testament, Fourth Edition

Copyright 1970, 1981, 1994, 2003 by Robert H. Gundry

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gundry, Robert Horton.

A survey of the New Testament / Robert H. Gundry. 4th ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN-13: 978-0-310-23825-6

1. Bible. N.T. Textbooks. I. Title.

BS2535.2G85 2003

225.6'1dc20

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CONTENTS

Illustrations

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Maps

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Charts

Syllables with primary accent are shown in capital letters. Secondary emphasis is indicated by an accent mark.

Adapted from William O. Walker Jr., ed., The HarperCollins BiblePronunciation Guide (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1989), xiii.

Apart from very occasional references to the King James Version (KJV) and the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible, I take responsibility for the English versions of biblical passages and the following: Didache 8:1; Letter toDiognetus 5:3,56, 9; Eusebius, Church History 3.39.116; 2 Enoch 44:12;Testament of Levi 18:114; Community Rule (1QS) 6:1,2021,2425; 7:15 19; 9:911; 10:1718; Damascus Document (CD) 1:1011; 2:78; 10:22;11:910,1415; 13:79; Melchizedek Text (11Q Melch)126; SectarianManifesto (4QMMT) C,2632; Thanksgiving Hymns (1QH) 5:2223; Mish-nah, Avot 3:16 and Yadayim 4:7; Babylonian Talmud, Qiddushin 30 b and Yevamot 77a,b; Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Exodus 7:11; the Theodotus Inscription; Aratus of Soli in Cilicia, Phaenomena 25; Aristotle, NicomacheanEthics 8.9.12; Diogenes, Letter 47 (to Zeno); Epictetus, Discourses 4.1.1;Homer, Odyssey 17.48387; Letter of Heraclitus to Amphidamas number 5, lines1521; Musonius Rufus,Is Marriage a Handicap for the Pursuit of Philosophy? 211; Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 1296; Paris Papyrus 574; Cologne Papyrus 7921; and Pliny the Younger, Letters 10.97.

As for remaining translations, those of the Old Testament Apocrypha come from the New Revised Standard Version; of the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha from