| List of Tables and Figures | p. xiii |
| Preface | p. xv |
| Introduction: The Problem of a Literary History of the New Testament | p. 1 |
| The Twofold Beginnings of a History of Early Christian Literature | |
| The Charismatic Beginnings of Gospel Literature in Jesus | |
| The Oral Prehistory of Early Christian Literature with the Historical Jesus | |
| The Beginning of the History of Early Christian Literature | p. 19 |
| Beginnings of Oral Tradition with the Historical Jesus? | p. 21 |
| Three Tradents of the Jesus Tradition after Easter | p. 25 |
| The Formal Language of Jesus' Proclamation | p. 27 |
| The Sayings Source Q | |
| The First Written Form of the Jesus Tradition | p. 32 |
| The Structure of Q | p. 34 |
| The Time of Q's Origins | p. 36 |
| The Tradition-Critical and Theological Location of Q | p. 37 |
| The Genre of Q: A Prophetic Book and More? | p. 40 |
| The Gospel of Mark | |
| The Second Written Form of the Jesus Tradition | p. 43 |
| The Structure of Mark's Gospel | p. 43 |
| Time and Place of Mark's Gospel | p. 48 |
| Genre: A Biography with a Public Claim | p. 53 |
| The Charismatic Phase of Paul's Epistolary Literature | |
| The Historical Conditions for Paul's Letters | p. 61 |
| The Pre-Pauline Oral Tradition | p. 64 |
| Jesus Traditions in Paul | p. 64 |
| Pre-Pauline Christological Formulae | p. 67 |
| The Pauline Letter as Literary Form | p. 69 |
| The Form-Critical Location of Paul's Letters: Models | p. 69 |
| Development from Letter of Friendship to Community Letter by Means of Liturgical Stylization | p. 74 |
| Development from Letter of Friendship to Community Letter by Means of Rhetorical Stylization | p. 78 |
| The Sequence and Development of the Pauline Letters | p. 82 |
| The Collection of Paul's Letters | p. 94 |
| The Sequence of Paul's Letters | p. 94 |
| Attestation of Paul's Letters | p. 95 |
| The Place Where Paul's Letters Were Collected | p. 99 |
| The Fictive Self-Interpretations of Paul and Jesus: The Pseudepigraphic Phase | |
| Pseudepigraphy as a Literary-Historical Phase in Early Christianity | p. 105 |
| Early Christian Pseudepigraphy between Jewish and Hellenistic Cultures | p. 109 |
| Early Christian Pseudepigraphy between Oral and Literary Cultures | p. 110 |
| Early Christian Pseudepigraphy between Educated Authors and Uneducated Addressees | p. 112 |
| Open Pseudepigraphy in Early Christianity? | p. 113 |
| Paul's Fictive Self-Interpretation in the Deutero-Pauline Writings | p. 116 |
| The Eschatological Theology of 2 Thessalonians | p. 117 |
| The Cosmic Wisdom Theology of Colossians and Ephesians | p. 118 |
| The Theology of Office in the Pastorals | p. 121 |
| Paul's Fictive Self-Correction in the Deutero-Pauline Letters | p. 123 |
| Excursus: The Correction of Paul by the Catholic Epistles | |
| Jesus' Fictive Self-Interpretation through the Redaction of the Jesus Traditions in the Synoptic Gospels | p. 130 |
| The Gospel of Mark | p. 132 |
| The Gospel of Matthew | p. 134 |
| The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles | p. 143 |
| Jesus' Fictive Self-Interpretation through the Transformation of the Jesus Traditions in the Gospels Associated with Gnosis | p. 155 |
| The Gospel of John | p. 156 |
| The Gospel of Thomas | p. 165 |
| The Gospel of the Egyptians | p. 167 |
| Jesus' Fictive Self-Interpretation through the Continuation of the Synoptic Jesus Tradition in the Jewish-Christian Gospels | p. 168 |
| The Gospel of the Nazareans | p. 169 |
| The Gospel of the Ebionites | p. 169 |
| The Gospel of the Hebrews | p. 170 |
| Jesus' Fictive Self-Interpretation through the Harmonizing of the Jesus Tradition in Other Apocryphal Gospels | p. 171 |
| The Egerton Gospel | p. 171 |
| The Gospel of Peter | p. 172 |
| The Unknown Berlin Gospel | p. 173 |
| The Authority of the Independent Forms: The Functional Phase | |
| The Independent Differentiation of Partial Texts and Tendencies | p. 179 |
| Preaching | p. 179 |
| Congregational Order | p. 180 |
| Collections of Sayings | p. 180 |
| Secret Teachings of Jesus | p. 180 |
| Historical Writing | p. 181 |
| Apocalypses | p. 181 |
| The Acts of the Apostles | p. 184 |
| The Revelation to John | p. 189 |
| The Letter to the Hebrews | p. 195 |
| The New Testament on Its Way to Becoming a Religious World Literature: The Canonical Phase | |
| Canon as a Means to Stability Based on Compromise and Demarcation | p. 205 |
| The Four-Gospel Canon | p. 211 |
| Canonical Collections of Letters | p. 216 |
| Canonical Clusters of Gospels and Other Genres | p. 218 |
| The Septuagint as Canonical Model | p. 220 |
| A Canonical Edition of the New Testament in the Second Century? | p. 222 |
| Establishment of a Canon as a Recognition of and Limitation on Plurality | p. 225 |
| Extra-Canonical Literature Provides Flexibility | p. 237 |
| New Creations by New Charismatic Authors | p. 238 |
| New Creations in the Form of Additional Pseudepigraphic Writings | p. 241 |
| New Creations through Multiplication of Functional Genres | p. 248 |
| New Creations as Metacanonical Texts | p. 250 |
| Concluding Observation | p. 253 |
| Notes | p. 260 |
| Bibliography | p. 291 |
| Index | p. 302 |
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