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This collection of papers presented in 1976 at the Griesbach Bicentenary Colloquium in Munster (Westphalia) provides an authoritative account of the life of Johann Jakob Griesbach. It reviews his work and examines its continuing influence in the fields of the Greek synopsis, the synoptic problem and text criticism of the New Testament.

This book attempts to make a contribution to the New Testament doctrine of the Spirit, with special reference to the paraclete problem. Dr Johnston begins with the use of the word 'spirit' in the Gospel of John and treats it as primarily 'impersonal'. It denotes divine power or energy. God acts by his spirit, both to create and to redeem.

For much of the modern period the Testament of Job has been one of the lesser-known pseudepigraphic products of early Judaism, and this book attempts to remedy the deficiency of scholarly material in the area with a well-balanced treatment of its central concerns.

Offers a grammatical explanation to the peculiarity of the language of the Apocalypse (or Book of Revelation).

Professor Przybylski contends that the lack of agreement among New Testament scholars about the concept of righteousness in the Gospel of Matthew arises because the wrong background literature has been posited as governing its usage. It is only when Matthaean usage is viewed in terms of the world of though reflected in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Tannaitic literature that it becomes intelligible.

In this book the late Vincent Taylor defends and develops his argument in favour of a non-Markan basis for the Gospel of Luke which he first presented in his book Behind the Third Gospel. He answers critics of that book by a detailed study of the Passion Narrative and concludes that Luke used, in this part of his gospel at least, a special source which was as old as Mark but independent of it.

A study of a group of terms which have a central importance in the New Testament.

In this detailed exegesis of Ephesians 5: 21-33 Dr Sampley not only elucidates the meaning of this difficult and historically important passage, but he also discusses and describes the background and sources of the Epistle.

This monograph seeks to answer the question why Melchizedek, who is a minor figure in the Old Testament, is selected by the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews to represent the priesthood of Christ. Professor Horton surveys the traditions about Melchizedek from the Old Testment period, in Philo, Josephus and Qumran, to the later sources in Rabbinical and patristic writings and the Gnosticism.

The author argues that the idea of witness is a live metaphor in the New Testament, to be understood in terms of the Old Testament legal assembly, though the Greek lawcourts are also relevant. Professor Trites contends that this idea of witness in relation to Christ and his gospel plays an essential part in the New Testament and in Christian faith and life generally.

This is the first of a series of monograph supplements to the journal New Testament Studies. The main purpose of the series is to make possible publication of work which is too long for inclusion in the journal. The monographs will be published in either English, French or German: the present one is in English.

This work is a comprehensive treatment of one of the most intriguing questions of modern New Testament study: what kind of person could have produced the mysterious document known today as the Epistle to the Hebrews?

This volume examines one of the best-known, yet most intriguing of Jesus' discourses within the Fourth Gospel. It demonstrates that - in spite of having links with Gnostic ideas - the roots of teh Shepherd Discourse are in fact based in Old Testament and jewish texts about the Shepherds of Israel.