Pheme Perkins delivers a clear, fresh introduction to the earliest written accounts of Jesus - Matthew, Mark, and Luke - situating those canonical Gospels within the wider world of oral storytelling and literary production of the first and second centuries. She shows how the noncanonical Gospel mate... (more)

This addition to the popular New Testament in Context series focuses on the politics of division in Paul's letter to the Galatians. Galatians has been traditionally read as the "Magna Carta" of Christian liberty, teaching that Gentiles need not become Jews before becoming Christians. Pheme Perkins d... (more)