The New Testament, Its Background, Growth and Content: Its Background Growth and Content - Tapa dura

A comprehensive guide to the content and historical background of the New Testament, showing the main literary problems of the Gospel and how the scholars confront them.

Reverend Professor Bruce Manning Metzger was educated at Lebanon Valley College, Princeton Theological Seminary and Princeton University (USA). He worked as Professor of New Testament Language and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary. He has given many lectures to academic institutions in several countries such as England, South America, Germany, Greece. His other publications include: The Text, Canon, and Principal Versions of the Bible (1956), The Oxford Concise Concordance to the Revised Standard Version of the Holy Bible (1962), and The Oxford Companion to the Bible (1993).