Handbook on the Gospels

A leading New Testament scholar provides an easy-to-navigate resource for studying and understanding the Gospels. Written with classroom utility and pastoral application in mind, this accessibly written volume summarizes the content of each major section of the biblical text to help students, pastors, and laypeople quickly grasp the sense of particular passages. The series, modeled after Baker Academic's successful Old Testament Handbook series, focuses primarily on the content of the biblical books without getting bogged down in historical-critical questions or detailed verse-by-verse exegesis. The book covers all four Gospels and explores each major passage, showing how Jesus is the central figure of each plot. It also unpacks how the Old Testament informs the Gospels.

Publisher: Baker
Type: Hardback
ISBN: 9781540960160

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Benjamin L. Gladd (PhD, Wheaton College) is professor of New Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including From Adam and Israel to the Church, The Story Retold: A Biblical-Theological Introduction to the New Testament (with G. K. Beale) and Making All Things New (with Matthew S. Harmon). He also edits the Essential Studies in Biblical Theology series and serves on the editorial board of Themelios.

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"Introductions to the New Testament often spend time on issues such as authorship, dating, and audience of the Gospels and provide only thumbnail sketches of what is most important, the text. Benjamin Gladd provides in this volume what teachers, students, and interested laypersons want and need. In this one volume, he admirably delineates the four Gospels' shared and unique perspectives on Jesus's ministry, death, and resurrection. The interpretation of the Gospel texts is comprehensive without getting tangled in the underbrush of modern debates. Gladd admirably gets to the heart of the matter, the narrative's roots in the Old Testament, historical veracity, context in Jewish life, and, most importantly, theological significance. The additional bibliography makes this book a marvelous resource for a wide variety of settings." David E. Garland, professor of Christian Scriptures, George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University