For over thirty years, this widely acclaimed introduction to the New Testament weds literary and historical approaches to focus on the New Testament's structure and meaning. Esteemed New Testament scholars Robert A. Spivey, D. Moody Smith, and C. Clifton Black provide teachers and students with a reading of early Christian literature that is at once systematic, critical and reliable in its scope and content. Previously published by Pearson/Prentice Hall, Fortress Press is now proud to represent this classic introduction!