"An intelligent and provocative introduc-tion to the methods and problems of con-temporary New Testament interpretation. This book will be a boon to university and seminary courses, laying out the range of the discussion and persistently relating the issues to the reading of New Testament texts."

-DAVID L. TIEDE

"For some time, students of the New Testa-ment have needed a sound, clearly written description of the methods scholars use to interpret texts. Christopher Tuckett has met that need, by providing penetrating analysis of what methods set out to do, and of what they actually accomplish."

-BRUCE CHILTON

CHRISTOPHER TUCKETT is lecturer in

New Testament Studies at the University of Manchester. He is the editor of The Mes--sianic Secret (Fortress Press, 1983).