Bernhard Weiss
Published: 2015-06-17
Total Pages: 438
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Excerpt from A Manual of Introduction to the New Testament, Vol. 1 of 2 It is almost necessary for me to apologize for putting forth an Introduction to the New Testament without being in a position to offer the results of recent, not to say the most recent, researches. Even the history of the Canon, which I hope I have advanced a step beyond the current combination and critical explanation of isolated facts, contains only the expansion of fundamental thoughts to which I have already given expression in a review of Credner's "History of the Canon" (Theol. Stud. u. Krit., 1863, 1). But the special Introduction touches on few problems, apart perhaps from the sections on the Corinthian and Johannine Epistles and the Acts, on which I have not already had occasion to express my opinion, discussing them minutely in some cases, and in many cases more than once. And although I am conscious of having learnt on all points, even from opponents, and of having in many respects advanced my conceptions, yet their basis has been preserved throughout. Nor is it the design of this book to assail with a renewed appeal for their assent, those who have hitherto been unable to accept the same fundamental views, much less those who have rejected them with vehemence, though without close examination, although I believe there is much that finds more favourable elucidation and more convincing proof from the unbroken connection of a general historical and critical survey in which it is here seen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.