New Testament Genre Criticism for the 1990s

Abstract

"The twentieth century has given birth to many new critical tools for biblical scholarship. Informed students of the Scriptures must now come to grips with form and redaction criticism, canon criticism, social-scientific analysis, lexical semantics, and a variety of other seemingly daunting methods. One of the newer and more important of these disciplines is genre criticism. A selective sampling ofthe past ten years’ most significant studies ofNT genres may elucidate the ‘state of the art’ and prepare readers for wrestling in the decade ahead with still unsolved questions."