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Historical-critical Study of the New Testament and its Reception History in the Early Church

My research covers two fields that both have to do with the study of the New Testament. The first is the historical-critical study of the New Testament. In this respect, three aspects should be mentioned: study of the Synoptic Problem (i.e., the relationship between the three synoptic gospels), specifically, the defence of the Two-Document Hypothesis and the reconstruction of Q, the source of Matthew and Luke for the double tradition material; study of Luke-Acts as an integrated corpus; study of the world of the New Testament, above all, of parallels in Greek and Latin literature, including papyrological and epigraphical material and Hellenistic Jewish literature in as far as it can clarify the earliest Christian texts. The second field has to do with reception history. Two aspects should be mentioned:  the study of the origin of an normative and authoritative corpus of texts (“the canon of the NT”) after the model of that of the Old Testament and of the use (“reception”) that was made of the NT in early Christian literature (in commentaries, homilies, theological tractates, apologetical and polemical tractates, apocryphal literature). I have published widely in both fields.

 

Date:1 Oct 2000 →  30 Sep 2023
Keywords:Synoptic Problem, Source criticism, Reception history
Disciplines:Biblical studies, Study of Christianity, History of religions, churches and theology, Classical literature