Subject Index
Subject Index
Page numbers refer to print edition.
Acts, book of, 56, 63-64
Against Heresies, 99, 159
anonymity of authorship, 130-31
Apocalypse of Peter, 37, 162
apocalyptic imagery, 113, 115
apocrypha, New Testament, 17, 37, 98, 162-63, 167, 201
apostles, 67-69
and revelation, 122
authority of, 126, 129, 206-7
credentials of, 140-41, 151
deaths of, 75
preaching of, 131
teaching of, 69-71, 73, 76, 121, 128, 133, 150, 152, 190-92
apostolic fathers, 68, 176-181, 208
apostolic tradition, 121, 124-25, 132-33, 138-39, 147
authority of NT authors, 119-21, 153-54, 207-8
book production, Christian, 100-101, 118
canon
books excluded from the, 37
criticism (canonical), 36
church and the, 17, 21-22, 24, 31, 33-34, 38, 44-45
divine authority of, 40-41
exclusive definition of, 29-34, 42-45
functional definition of, 34-40, 42-45
Old Testament, 50
ontological definition of, 40-45
order of, 145-46
canonization process, 21-22, 34-35, 38-39, 43
Catholic Epistles, 147-53
Celsus, 84-85
Cicero, 90
1 Clement, 68, 197-99, 202
Clement of Alexandria, 66, 167-68
Clement of Rome, 148
commands/commandments of God, 126-27
Constantine, 19, 204
Council of Trent, 32
covenant theology, 57-59
covenants, 59, 61-62, 65-67, 110, 206-7
David, 50, 52-53
Decalogue, 60
Diatesseron, 165
divino instrumento versus instrumentum, 66
Epistle of Barnabas, 187-89, 202-3
eschatology, 51, 77, 112-16, 206
Eusebius, 166
Exposition of the Lord’s Oracles, 106
extended situation (zehrdente Situation), 75-76
extrinsic model, 18-23, 28, 33, 47, 80, 117, 156, 205
eyewitness testimony, 107, 151
form criticism, 81-82, 112, 178
formula citandi, 172
Galen, 107
genealogy, 144-45
Gospel of Thomas, 98
Gospels, 30-46, 32, 63, 85-86, 114, 157, 159, 161-62, 171, 173-75, 179, 186
Greek language, NT style of, 91-92
Griesbach hypothesis, 179
handwritten scripts, 98-99
Hermogenes, 166
Herodotus, 105-6
historical criticism, 41-42
historiography, 105-6
Ignatius of Antioch, 68, 148, 189-93, 202-3
inscriptional curse, 60-61, 63, 153
intrinsic model, 21-23, 57, 79, 154, 205, 209-10
Irenaeus, 20, 24, 69, 99, 156-61, 163, 165, 168-69, 181-82, 193, 202-4, 208
Jesus’ relation to canon, 48, 51-52
John (Evangelist), 135-36, 138, 151-52, 182, 193
Justin Martyr, 68, 88, 169-76, 199, 202, 208
kingdom of God, 49, 51, 59, 113-14
letter/Spirit distinction, 109-11
literacy, 24, 82-84, 87-88, 103, 117, 207
literary dependence, 179
living voice, 107-9
Lucian, 84, 106
Luke (Evangelist), 138-43, 148
Marcion(ism), 18-19, 38, 82, 94, 154, 157-58, 204
Mark (Evangelist), 148
Martial, 93
Matthew (Evangelist), 143-46
Melito of Sardis, 65-66
membrana, 93-95
Messiah/Messianic expectations, 49-51, 55-56, 77
Minucius Felix, 84
Montanists/anti-Montanists, 66
Muratorian fragment, 162-64
nomina sacra, 101-2, 207
oral history, 106
oral religion, 79-80
oral tradition, 72, 86, 101, 109, 178, 192
orality, 70, 81, 84, 87, 89, 103-4
Origen, 67, 148
OT citations in the NT, 54-57, 94-95, 134-35, 137-38, 149
Papias, 104-9, 171, 182-87, 193, 202-3
Paul (apostle), 64, 109-12, 193
credentials of, 123
Pauline corpus, 32, 86, 123-29, 157, 175, 189-90, 198-99
Peter (apostle), 68, 73, 75, 133-34, 149-51, 183
Philip the Evangelist, 182
Pliny, 90
Polybius, 105
Polycarp, 160, 182, 193-97, 199, 202
prophetic judgment, 128-29
public reading, 172-73
Q (document), 93, 179, 185, 201
Quintilian, 93
Qumran community, 57-58, 95, 115-16
rhetoric, 92, 107
Second Temple Judaism, 49-50, 58, 74
Seneca, 108
Shepherd of Hermas, 37, 98
Sibylline Oracles, 161
sociohistorical theory, 83, 117
speech-act philosophy, 44-45
Tatian, 165-66, 169
Tertullian, 66
testamentary genre, 73-74
Tetragrammaton, 102
textuality, 24, 87, 89, 91, 94-95, 101, 103, 117, 178, 181, 207
Theophilus (biblical figure), 142
Theophilus of Antioch, 164-66
Thucydides, 105-6
Timothy, 148
two-source hypothesis, 179
written documents, 62, 65, 75, 81, 107-8
mode of transmission, 90