Eckhard J. Schnabel

With attention to issues that continue to surface in today’s church, the Zondervan Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament series offers pastors, students, and teachers a focused resource for reading, teaching, and preaching the Book of Acts. Acts highlights (1) the work of God through the exalted Jesus who grants the presence of the Holy Spirit; (2) the significance of Jesus who is Israel’s Messiah and the Savior of the world and who directs the expansion of the church; (3) the work of the Holy Spirit as transforming power present in the lives of the followers of Jesus and their communities; (4) the identity of the church as the community of God, comprised of Jews and Gentiles who are followers of Jesus; (5) the mission of the church whose leaders take the gospel to cities and regions of the Roman Empire in which Jesus has not yet been proclaimed as Messiah and Savior; (6) the historical events and the persons who played a role in the expansion of earliest Christianity.

Acts

David W. Chapman

The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus is a comprehensive sourcebook for those looking to gain a more robust understanding of this event through the eyes of ancient writers. Featuring extrabiblical primary texts--along with a new translation and commentary by David W. Chapman and Eckhard J. Schnabel--this work is relevant for understanding Jesus' last days. The significance of Jesus' death is apparent from the space that Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John devote to the Passion narrative, from the emphasis of many speeches in the book of Acts, and from the missionary preaching and the theology of the apostle Paul. Exegetical discussions of Jesus' trial and death have employed biblical (Old Testament) and extrabiblical texts in order to understand the events during the Passover of AD 30 that led to Jesus' execution by crucifixion. The purpose of this book is to publish the primary texts that have been cited in the scholarly literature as relevant for understanding Jesus' trial and crucifixion. The texts in the first part deal with Jesus' trial and interrogation before the Sanhedrin, and the texts in the second part concern Jesus' trial before Pilate. The texts in part three represent crucifixion as a method of execution in antiquity. For each document, the authors provide the original text (Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, or Latin), a translation, and commentary. The commentary describes the literary context and the purpose of each document in context before details are clarified, along with observations on the contribution of these texts to understanding Jesus' trial and crucifixion.

Texts and Commentary

The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus

This volume contains seventeen essays written by Eckhard J. Schnabel, written over the past 25 years. The essays focus on the realities of the work of Jesus, Paul, John, and the early church, exploring aspects of the history, missionary expansion, and theology of the early church including lexical, ethical, and ecclesiological questions. Specific subjects discussed include Jesus' silence at his trial, the introduction of foreign deities to Athens, the understanding of Rom 12:1, Paul's ethics, the meaning of baptizein, the realities of persecution, Christian identity and mission in Revelation, and singing and instrumental music in the early church.

Missionary Realities in Historical Contexts. Collected Essays

Jesus, Paul, and the Early Church

Stanley E. Porter

The essays in On the Writing of New Testament Commentaries survey relevant questions related to the writing of commentaries on the books of the New Testament.

Festschrift for Grant R. Osborne on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday

On the Writing of New Testament Commentaries

Urchristliche Mission

Law and Wisdom from Ben Sira to Paul

Die Historisch-Theologische Auslegungsreihe des Neuen Testaments ist ein Projekt von Exegeten aus dem evangelikalen Bereich. Sie will mit wissenschaftlicher Gründlichkeit die Aussagen der neutestamentlichen Texte im Hinblick auf ihre historische Situation, ihre literarische Eigenart und mit betonter Berücksichtigung ihrer theologischen Anliegen erläutern und verständlich machen. Dabei werden neben den traditionellen auch neuere exegetische Methoden und Forschungsergebnisse berücksichtigt. Das Besondere dieser Kommentarreihe ist, dass über die möglichst präzise historische Erklärung hinaus Brücken in die kirchliche Gegenwart geschlagen werden. Die Auslegung behält dabei die Praxis von Verkündigung und Seelsorge im Blick. Die Kommentarreihe folgt einem durchgängigen vierteiligen Aufbau: In Abschnitt I wird eine präzise und wortgetreue Übersetzung der neutestamentlichen Texte geboten. In Abschnitt II finden sich Bemerkungen zum Kontext, zum Aufbau, zur literarischen Form oder Gattung sowie zum theologischen Hintergrund des jeweiligen Abschnitts. Abschnitt III bietet eine gründliche Vers-für-Vers-Exegese. Abschnitt IV ist als Zusammenfassung zu verstehen, in der auch die Wirkungsgeschichte der Verse verfolgt sowie ein Brückenschlag in die Gegenwart und die praktische Anwendung gegeben wird. Stand 2. Auflage 2010

HistorischTheologische Auslegung

Der erste Brief des Paulus an die Korinther

Die Historisch-Theologische Auslegungsreihe will mit wissenschaftlicher Gründlichkeit die Aussagen der neutestamentlichen Texte im Hinblick auf ihre historische Situation, ihre literarische Eigenart und mit betonter Berücksichtigung ihrer theologischen Anliegen erläutern und verständliche machen. Dabei werden neben den traditionellen auch neuere exegetische Methoden und Forschungsergebnisse berücksichtigt. Das Besondere dieser Kommentarreihe ist, dass über die möglichst präzise historische Erklärung hinaus Brücken in die kirchliche Gegenwart geschlagen werden. Die Auslegung behält dabei die Praxis von Verkündigung und Seelsorge im Blick.

In a two-volume work, Eckhard J. Schnabel offers a comprehensive and defiinitive examination of the first century of missionary expansion--from Jesus to the last of the apostles.--From publisher's description.

Early Christian Mission: Paul & the early church

David Wallace Chapman

"The authors of this volume set themselves one task, to trace the extra-biblical primary texts that are relevant for understanding Jesus' trial and crucifixion. With that goal in mind, the book is built on three major themes: (1) Jesus' trial / interrogation before the Sanhedrin, (2) Jesus' trial before Pontius Pilatus, and (3) crucifixion as a method of execution in antiquity. In chronologically sequential order (where possible), the authors select and arrange an overwhelming amount of extra-biblical primary texts -- 462 to be exact -- underneath these three categories (75, 46, and 341 texts respectively)."--Brian J. Wright in Religious Studies Review.

This Tyndale New Testament commentary on the Gospel of Mark from Eckhard Schnabel seeks to help today's Christian disciples communicate the significance of Jesus and the transforming power of the good news. This volume will be useful for preachers, Bible teachers, and non-specialists alike.

Eckhard J. Schnabel

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