Rabbi Samuel Sandmel was professor of Bible and Hellenistic literature at Hebrew Union College¿Jewish Institute of Religion, and was author of many highly regarded books in the field of Jewish and Bible studies.
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface
New Forward
Part One: Preliminaries
I. A Description of the New Testament
II. The Historian's Approach
III. The Jewish Background
IV. From Judaism into Christianity
Part Two: Paul and the Pauline Epistles
V. The Background of Paulinism
VI. Paul
VII. Paul¿s Doctrine of Christ
VIII. The Church and the Law of Moses
IX. The Epistles of Paul
X. Pauline Christianity and Greek Religion
Part Three: The Synoptic Gospels and Jesus
XI. The Gospel Process
XII. The Gospel According to Mark
XIII. Beyond the Gospel According to Mark
XIV. The Gospel According to Matthew
XV. The Gospel According to Luke
XVI. The Historical Jesus
Part Four: Other Writings
XVII. Catholic, Johannine, and Pastoral Epistles
XVIII. The Epistle of James
XIX. The First Epistle of Peter
XX. The Epistle of the Hebrews
XXI. The Johannine Epistles
XXII. Revelation
XXIII. Acts of the Apostles
XXIV. The Gospel According to John
XXV. The Pastoral Epistles
XXVI. Jude and Second Peter
Part Five: The Significance of the New Testament
XXVII. The Genius of the New Testament Faith
XXVIII. Epilogue
Bibliography
Indices
