New Testament Interpretation: Essays on Principles and Methods

A multi-author handbook to the principles and methods of New Testament interpretation, edited by Marshall and published by Paternoster in Exeter and Eerdmans in Grand Rapids in 1977, revised 1979 (406 pages). Eighteen chapters by British evangelical scholars run in four parts: the background to interpretation (F. F. Bruce on the history of New Testament study, Graham Stanton on presuppositions); the use of critical methods (Anthony Thiselton on semantics, Donald Guthrie, John Drane, Marshall's own chapter on historical criticism, then source, form and redaction criticism and tradition history); the task of exegesis (E. Earle Ellis, Ralph Martin, R. T. France); and the New Testament and the modern reader (James Dunn on myth, Thiselton on the new hermeneutic, Robin Nixon, John Goldingay). Marshall wrote the introduction and the foreword. It was a widely used textbook showing evangelical scholars engaging critical method.