"Here at last is the synthesis of the diverse research on the letters of the early Christians, the primary medium for primitive Christian business, theology, and teaching. With unusual clarity, William G. Doty discusses both the cultural setting of the letters and the literary aspects of the epistles of the Christians, further clues to the people and the times. Singling out Paul's letters, Doty…
Recently New Testament scholarship has been strongly influenced by a discipline that arose in post-war Germany and is here called "redaction criticism". The author defines redaction criticism as "the discipline concerned with the theological motivation of an author as it is revealed in the collection, arrangement, editing and modification of traditional material or the creation of new forms wit…