Preface
Abbreviations
PART I: BACKGROUND
1 Introduction
1.1 Defining the scope
1.2 Methodological considerations
1.3 Organization
1.4 Theses
2 Comparable Patterns of Influence
2.1 Hebrew Bible
2.2 Postbiblical Jewish writings
2.3 Early church fathers
2.4 Summary
PART II: JEWISH INFLUENCES ON THE NEW TESTAMENT
Overview of Part II
3 Jewish Cultural Commonplaces
3.1 Personnel
3.2 Worship
3.3 Supernaturalism
3.4 Jewish (or adjacent) movements
3.5 Messianism
3.6 Summary
4 Jewish Literary Conventions
4.1 Exegetical methods
4.2 Pluriform textual traditions
4.3 Exegetical expansions
4.4 Summary
5 Jewish Concrete Influences
5.1 Gospels
5.2 Pauline Epistles
5.3 Catholic Epistles
5.4 Summary
Recap of Part II
PART III: NON-JEWISH INFLUENCES ON THE NEW TESTAMENT
Overview of Part III
6 Non-Jewish Cultural Commonplaces
6.1 Personnel
6.2 Bureaucracy
6.3 Social conventions
6.4 Philosophical/religious movements
6.5 Summary
7 Non-Jewish Literary Conventions
7.1 Genres/subgenres
7.2 Rhetorical strategies
7.3 Tropes/motifs
7.4 Summary
8 Non-Jewish Concrete Influences
8.1 Acts
8.2 Pauline Epistles
8.3 Summary
Recap of Part III
PART IV: PRECANONICAL EARLY CHRISTIAN INFLUENCES
Overview of Part IV
9 Traditions of Jesus
9.1 Biographical material
9.2 Sayings material in Acts
9.3 Sayings material in the Pauline Epistles
9.4 Sayings material in the Catholic Epistles
9.5 Summary
10 Early Apostolic Traditions
10.1 Confessional material
10.2 Liturgical doxologies
10.3 Sermons and prophecies
10.4 Epistolary traces
10.5 Summary
11 Documentary Reuse
11.1 Gospels
11.2 Acts
11.3 Pauline Epistles
11.4 Catholic Epistles and Revelation
11.5 Summary
Recap of Part IV
PART V: CONCLUSION
12 Synthesis of Findings
12.1 Complexity of formation
12.2 Spectrum of engagement
12.3 Navigation of multiple horizons
12.4 Breadth of information flow
12.5 Difference between influence and authority
13 Appendix
Bibliography
Name and Subject Index
Scripture Index
Ancient Sources Index
