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| Preface | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Christian Origins and the New Testament | p. 3 |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| The Task | p. 6 |
| What to Do with the Wicked Tenants | p. 6 |
| The Questions | p. 11 |
| The History of Early Christianity | p. 14 |
| 'New Testament Theology' | p. 18 |
| Literary Criticism | p. 25 |
| The Task Restated | p. 26 |
| Tools for the Task | p. 29 |
| Knowledge: Problems and Varieties | p. 31 |
| Introduction | p. 31 |
| Towards Critical Realism | p. 32 |
| Stories, Worldviews and Knowledge | p. 38 |
| Conclusion | p. 44 |
| Literature, Story and the Articulation of Worldviews | p. 47 |
| Introduction | p. 47 |
| On Reading | p. 50 |
| Introduction | p. 50 |
| 'Is There Anybody There?' | p. 54 |
| Reading and Critical Realism | p. 61 |
| On Literature | p. 65 |
| The Nature of Stories | p. 69 |
| The Analysis of Stories: Narrative Structure | p. 69 |
| The Analysis of Stories: The Wicked Tenants | p. 74 |
| Jesus, Paul and the Jewish Stories | p. 77 |
| History and the First Century | p. 81 |
| Introduction | p. 81 |
| The Impossibility of 'Mere History' | p. 82 |
| This Does Not Mean 'No Facts' | p. 88 |
| Critical Realism and the Threat of the Disappearing Object | p. 88 |
| The Causes of the Misconception | p. 92 |
| Wanted: New Categories | p. 96 |
| Historical Method: Hypothesis and Verification | p. 98 |
| Introduction | p. 98 |
| The Requirements of a Good Hypothesis | p. 99 |
| Problems in Verification | p. 104 |
| From Event to Meaning | p. 109 |
| Event and Intention | p. 109 |
| History and Narrative | p. 113 |
| History and Meaning | p. 115 |
| Conclusion | p. 118 |
| Historical Study of First-Century Religious Movements | p. 118 |
| Introduction | p. 118 |
| Judaism in the First Century | p. 118 |
| Christianity in the First Century | p. 119 |
| Theology, Authority and the New Testament | p. 121 |
| Introduction: From Literature and History to Theology | p. 121 |
| Worldview and Theology | p. 122 |
| On Worldviews | p. 122 |
| On Theology | p. 126 |
| On Christian Theology | p. 131 |
| Worldviews, Theology and Biblical Studies | p. 137 |
| Theology, Narrative and Authority | p. 139 |
| Conclusion | p. 143 |
| First-Century Judaism within the Greco-Roman World | p. 145 |
| The Setting and the Story | p. 147 |
| Introduction | p. 147 |
| The Aim | p. 147 |
| The Sources | p. 151 |
| The Greco-Roman World as the Context of Early Judaism | p. 152 |
| The Story of Israel, 587 BC--AD 70 | p. 157 |
| From Babylon to Rome (587-63 BC) | p. 157 |
| Jews under Roman Rule (63 BC--AD 70) | p. 159 |
| Judaism Reconstructed (AD 70-135) | p. 161 |
| Conclusion | p. 166 |
| The Developing Diversity | p. 167 |
| The Social Setting | p. 167 |
| Movements of Revolt | p. 170 |
| The Pharisees | p. 181 |
| The Sources | p. 181 |
| The Identity of the Pharisees | p. 184 |
| The Agenda and Influence of the Pharisees | p. 185 |
| The Essenes: Spotlight on a Sect | p. 203 |
| Priests, Aristocrats, and Sadducees | p. 209 |
| 'Ordinary Jews': Introduction | p. 213 |
| Story, Symbol, Praxis: Elements of Israel's Worldview | p. 215 |
| Introduction | p. 215 |
| Stories | p. 215 |
| Introduction | p. 215 |
| The Basic Story | p. 216 |
| The Smaller Stories | p. 219 |
| Conclusion | p. 221 |
| Symbols | p. 224 |
| Introduction | p. 224 |
| Temple | p. 224 |
| Land | p. 226 |
| Torah | p. 227 |
| Racial Identity | p. 230 |
| Conclusion | p. 232 |
| Praxis | p. 233 |
| Introduction | p. 233 |
| Worship and Festivals | p. 233 |
| Study and Learning | p. 235 |
| Torah in Practice | p. 237 |
| According to the Scriptures; The Anchor of the Worldview | p. 241 |
| Conclusion: Israel's Worldview | p. 243 |
| The Beliefs of Israel | p. 244 |
| Introduction | p. 244 |
| First-Century Jewish Monotheism | p. 248 |
| Creational Monotheism | p. 248 |
| Providential Monotheism | p. 250 |
| Covenantal Monotheism | p. 251 |
| Types of Duality | p. 252 |
| Monotheism and its Modifications | p. 256 |
| Election and Covenant | p. 259 |
| Introduction | p. 259 |
| Covenant | p. 260 |
| Israel, Adam and the World | p. 262 |
| Pentateuch | p. 262 |
| Prophets | p. 264 |
| Wisdom Literature | p. 264 |
| Qumran | p. 265 |
| Other Second-Temple Literature | p. 266 |
| Israel and the Nations | p. 267 |
| Covenant and Eschatology | p. 268 |
| Covenant, Redemption and Forgiveness | p. 272 |
| Beliefs: Conclusion | p. 279 |
| The Hope of Israel | p. 280 |
| 'Apocalyptic' | p. 280 |
| Introduction | p. 280 |
| A Literary Form and a Linguistic Convention | p. 280 |
| The Contexts of Apocalyptic | p. 286 |
| On 'Representation' | p. 289 |
| Daniel 7 and the Son of Man | p. 291 |
| Apocalyptic, History and 'Dualities' | p. 297 |
| The End of Exile, the Age to Come and the New Covenant | p. 299 |
| No King but God | p. 302 |
| The King that would Come | p. 307 |
| The Renewal of the World, of Israel, and of Humans | p. 320 |
| Salvation and Justification | p. 334 |
| Conclusion: First-Century Judaism | p. 338 |
| The First Christian Century | p. 339 |
| The Quest for the Kerygmatic Church | p. 341 |
| Introduction | p. 341 |
| Tasks and Methods | p. 345 |
| Fixed Points: History and Geography | p. 346 |
| Filling in the Gaps: Literature in Search of Setting | p. 357 |
| Praxis, Symbol and Questions: Inside Early Christian Worldviews | p. 359 |
| Introduction | p. 359 |
| Praxis | p. 359 |
| Symbols | p. 365 |
| Questions | p. 369 |
| Stories in Early Christianity (1) | p. 371 |
| Introduction | p. 371 |
| Luke and his Stories | p. 373 |
| A Strange Comparison? | p. 373 |
| The Form of Luke's Story | p. 378 |
| The Scribe and the Plot: Matthew's Story | p. 384 |
| 'Let the Reader Understand': The Story of Mark | p. 390 |
| Synoptic Gospels: Conclusion | p. 396 |
| Paul: From Adam to Christ | p. 403 |
| The Narrative World of the Letter to the Hebrews | p. 409 |
| The Story of John | p. 410 |
| Stories in Early Christianity (2) | p. 418 |
| Introduction: Form Criticism | p. 418 |
| Towards a Revised Form Criticism | p. 427 |
| Introduction | p. 427 |
| Prophetic Acts | p. 429 |
| Controversies | p. 431 |
| Parables | p. 433 |
| Longer Units | p. 434 |
| Conclusion | p. 435 |
| Stories but no Story? Q and Thomas | p. 435 |
| The Early Christians: A Preliminary Sketch | p. 444 |
| Introduction | p. 444 |
| Aims | p. 444 |
| Community and Definition | p. 447 |
| Development and Variety | p. 452 |
| Theology | p. 456 |
| Hope | p. 459 |
| Conclusion | p. 464 |
| Conclusion | p. 465 |
| The New Testament and the Question of God | p. 467 |
| Introduction | p. 467 |
| Jesus | p. 468 |
| The New Testament | p. 469 |
| The Question of God | p. 471 |
| Chronological Chart of Second-Temple Jewish History and of Early Christianity | p. 477 |
| Bibliography | p. 481 |
| Abbreviations | p. 481 |
| Primary Sources | p. 482 |
| Secondary Sources | p. 485 |
| Indexes | p. 511 |
| Index of Ancient Sources | p. 511 |
| Old Testament | p. 511 |
| Apocrypha | p. 514 |
| Pseudepigrapha | p. 515 |
| Qumran | p. 516 |
| Josephus | p. 517 |
| Philo | p. 518 |
| Rabbinic Works | p. 518 |
| New Testament | p. 519 |
| Other Early Christian Works | p. 522 |
| Gnostic Sources | p. 523 |
| Pagan Sources | p. 523 |
| Index of Modern Authors | p. 525 |
| Index of Selected Topics | p. 530 |
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