{"id":13147,"date":"2015-04-16T01:03:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T05:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/?p=13147"},"modified":"2015-03-29T14:17:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T18:17:21","slug":"bens-books-part-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/2015\/04\/16\/bens-books-part-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben&#8217;s Books&#8211;  Part Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2015\/03\/bwiii.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2015\/03\/bwiii.jpg\" alt=\"bwiii\" width=\"218\" height=\"122\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13133\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve written various introductions to the NT, and am in the process of writing an introduction to the Bible as a whole with Sandy Richter. We\u2019ll focus on the former here.   I\u2019m very proud of my two recent Oxford books. They are some of the best summary work I\u2019ve done.  <em>Invitation to the NT <\/em>(Oxford 2012) has got all the maps, charts, and beautiful color pictures you want plus a treatment of the whole NT.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2015\/03\/invite.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2015\/03\/invite.jpg\" alt=\"invite\" width=\"405\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13148\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>If on the other hand, you want more of a narratological Intro which deals with both the stories in the NT and the story of the NT, then <em>The New Testament Story<\/em> (Eerdmans) is the book for you.  <a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2015\/03\/narrat.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2015\/03\/narrat.jpg\" alt=\"narrat\" width=\"331\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13149\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More recently I have offered <em>Reading and Understanding the Bible<\/em> (Oxford, 2014) is a guide to how to interpret all of the various genre and sorts of literature in the Bible, complete with a guide as to how to do contextual exegesis properly. It\u2019s written at a level that college students and educated laity can certainly use it.  <a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2015\/03\/benn.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/55\/2015\/03\/benn.jpg\" alt=\"benn\" width=\"405\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13150\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve written various introductions to the NT, and am in the process of writing an introduction to the Bible as a whole with Sandy Richter. We\u2019ll focus on the former here. I\u2019m very proud of my two recent Oxford books. They are some of the best summary work I\u2019ve done. 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