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Chapter 6 of Levi S Baker, Why a New Testament? Covenant as an Impetus for New Scripture in Early Christianity, Texts and Editions for New Testament Study 19 (Leiden: Brill, 2025). This chapter explores the early reception of the NT. Here this study considers evidence for a scriptural reception of NT writings that is associated with the concept of covenant.
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Chapter 6 explores the early reception of the NT by considering evidence of a scriptural reception of NT writings that is associated with the concept of covenant. The chapter opens with several justifications for focusing on the pre-Irenaeus evidence, including the general agreement that the phrase “New Testament” was well established as a title of a collection of writings near the end of the second century. After discussing problems and procedures for examining second-century Christianity, the Apostolic Fathers and Justin Martyr are examined.
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This page is a summary of: New Covenant Scripture in the Second Century, September 2025, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004735422_007.
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