Dictionary of the Later New Testament & Its Developments : A Compendium of Contemporary Biblical Scholarship.

Preface
 How to Use This Dictionary
 Abbreviations
 Authorship of Articles
 Bibliographies
 Cross-references
 Indexes
 Transliteration
 Abbreviations
 General Abbreviations
 Translations of the Bible
 Books of the Bible
 The Apocrypha and Septuagint
 The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
 Apostolic Fathers
 Other Early Christian Literature
 Classical and Hellenistic Writers and Sources
 Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Texts
 Targumic Material
 Orders and Tractates in the Mishnah, Tosefta and Talmud
 Other Rabbinic Works
 Nag Hammadi Tractates. Periodicals, Reference Works and SerialsTransliteration of Hebrew and Greek
 Contributors
 A
 Abba
 Abraham
 1. Abraham the Exemplary Jew
 2. Acts: Abraham the Father of the Jews in Continuity with Believers
 2.1. Acts 3
 2.2. Acts 7
 2.3. Acts 13
 3. Hebrews: Abraham the Prototype of Faith for Believers
 3.1. Hebrews 2:14-16
 3.2. Hebrews 6:13-20
 3.3. Hebrews 7:1-10
 3.4. Hebrews 11:8-12, 17-19
 3.5. Hebrews 13:1-2
 4. James and 1 Peter: The Patriarchal Couple as Examples of Obedient Behavior
 4.1. James 2:21-24
 4.2. 1 Peter 3:4-5. 5. Apostolic Fathers: Adopted Christians and Disinherited Jews5.1. The Revised Promises to Abraham
 5.2. Circumcision Recast
 5.3. Continuity Between Abraham and Christ
 5.4. Father Abraham
 5.5. Abraham and the Afterlife
 5.6. The Virtuous Abraham
 Abyss
 Acts of Andrew
 Acts of John
 Acts of Peter
 Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles
 Acts of the Apostles
 1. The Genre of Acts
 1.1. Acts: Novel? Biography? Scientific Treatise? Ancient Historiography?
 1.2. Historiography and Historicism
 2. The Text of Acts
 3. The Speeches in Acts
 3.1. The Debate over Sources and Tradition. 3.2. The Role of the Speeches3.2.1. A Unified Worldview
 3.2.2. Performative Utterances
 3.2.3. \"Revealed History.\"
 3.2.4. Acts as Witness
 4. The Narrative Unity of Luke-Acts
 4.1. Luke-Acts, or Luke and Acts
 4.2. Luke, Acts and the New Testament Canon
 4.3. Luke-Acts: One Narrative Aim
 4.4. Acts 1:8 and the Outline of the Book of Acts
 4.5. The Author and the Narrator of Acts
 5. The Theology and Purpose of Acts
 5.1. God\'s Purpose
 5.1.1. The Divine Purpose
 5.1.2. The Scriptures of Israel
 5.1.3. The Holy Spirit
 5.2. Salvation
 5.2.1. God as Savior, Jesus as Savior. 5.2.2. The Message of Salvation5.2.3. Eschatology
 5.2.4. Judaism
 5.3. Discipleship
 5.3.1. Economic Koinonia
 5.3.2. Witness and Allegiance
 Acts of Thomas
 Adoptionism
 Adultery
 Adversaries
 1. Defining Adversaries
 2. Revelation
 3. Johannine Epistles
 3.1. 1 John
 3.2. 2 John
 3.3. 3 John
 4. Jude
 5. 2 Peter
 6. Pastoral Epistles
 6.1. 1 Timothy
 6.2. 2 Timothy
 6.3. Titus
 7. Ignatius of Antioch
 8. Ebionites
 9. Gnostics
 Agape, the
 Alexandria, Alexandrian Christianity
 1. Historical and Geographical Considerations
 2. Philo
 3. Hebrews
 4. The Catechetical School
 Allegory.