Thesiss

A story of Jesus' suffering and death exists in three independent but similar forms: the passion narratives in the canonical gospels of Mark and John and that in the apocryphal Gospel of Peter. This situation has never been adequately explained by form criticism. This dissertati…

The following project analyses the construction of the genre paradigm for a category of texts called apocalypses. By dismantling and reassembling the working paradigm, certain logical problems are disclosed: namely, the problems of the hierarchization of structural elements, and…

The intent of this thesis is to demonstrate that the theory presented by scholars such as Bruce, Betz, Longenecker, Fung, Carson, Witherington, Perkins, and Cummins—that Peter withdrew from table fellowship with Gentile Christians at Antioch (Gal 2:11-14) due to concern about ri…

This project is a series of sermons through the book of 1 Peter, exploring both the contextual meaning and biblical theological connections of the book to the rest of Scripture. Chapter 1 sets the stage for the project by giving a brief history of biblical theology, defining its…