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Boring 's Introduction Of The New Testament

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Boring’s Introduction to the New Testament, was a very interesting book. It detailed just about everything you would want to know about the New Testament and then some. He left no stone unturned in taking you deep into the history of every book and just about every writer that wrote the books of the New Testament. Boring is a very detailed writer, he takes you beyond what you think that you might know and in his own way breaks it down in a kind of complex way. The title explains the subject just barely, by me never having read this book I thought that it would be a little shallow. When the instructor informed us that this review was limited to eight hundred to one thousand words, so I kept reading and reading and I started to think how I was going to put all of it into such a minimum amount of words. The book was very technical and it took you deep into the history as far as talk of cannons and a deep history. However, as mentioned earlier the title does not give this book any justice. I thought it was just going to go from Mathew to Revelation giving some commentary on each book. Not only did it do that that it gave sometimes complicated complex breakdown of every chapter. For example in the beginning Boring broke down how testament = covenant = contract, this in itself put some thoughts really rolling in my mind as it relates to this writing. My take on the book was it was a little dry and long. In some cases it may have had to much detail. I feel that Boring in some cases

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