Loading...Here now is the second guest post of James McGrath on his book that provides an introduction to New Testament scholarship for people who are not, will not be, and possibly never would dream of being New Testament scholars. The full title and subtitle give a great sense of what it is all about: The A to Z of the New Testament: Things Experts Know That Everyone Else Should Too.
Here now is his fuller explanation.
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For much of the time that I was working on The A to Z of the New Testament, the title was The ABCs of New Testament Study. I envisaged the cover having children’s blocks on it, or perhaps the title of the book spelled in alphabet soup. The folks at Eerdmans wisely went in a different direction with the cover.
It was after
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An excellent explanation of your application of knowledge! Very useful. Thank you!
I love this book! I’m still working my way through it, but I really appreciate your mentioning it, Bart.
Thank you for sharing your love for my book! Comments like yours are such an encouragement to me!
Sounds like a great read – I just bought the Kindle edition!
Let me know what you think of it!
Question for Bart: in January 2020 you talk about writing a graphic novel textbook on the NT.
Did anything ever come of that?
You will probably get a quicker response if you leave this comment on a post that is by him, rather than a guest post.
I really expected these several posts to be a summary of key things one should know about the New Testament (that is, an informative abstract of the book), not descriptions of the writing process in producing the book. The book sounds very interesting, but I doubt if I’ll get the time to acquire and read it. A high-level summary of the book’s content in two to three blog posts would be very intriguing — and might actually convince me to allocate time to getting and reading the book after all!
I have provided that in other places, mostly right after the book came out. Bart invited me to share something about the book on his blog that I hadn’t before, and so that’s what I offered.
Are either of these of interest, and closer to what you’re looking for?
https://eerdword.com/interview-with-james-mcgrath/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdSrTmxpTxM