New Testament study / Loveday C.A. Alexander --Textual criticism of the New Testament / Bart D. Ehrman --Modern linguistics and the New Testament / Max Turner --Discourse analysis and New Testament interpretation / Joel B. Green --Genre analysis / James L. Bailey --The use of the Old Testament by New Testament writers / Richard B. Hays and Joel B. Green --Narrative criticism / Mark Allan Powell…
Beginning with Walter Bauer in 1934, the denial of clear orthodoxy in early Christianity has shaped and largely defined modern New Testament criticism, recently given new life through the work of spokesmen like Bart Ehrman. Spreading from academia into mainstream media, the suggestion that diversity of doctrine in the early church led to many competing orthodoxies is indicative of today's postm…