Preface
Abbreviations

PART I: BACKGROUND
1 Introduction
1.1 Defining the scope
1.2 Methodological considerations
1.3 Organization
1.4 Theses

2 Comparable Patterns of Influence
2.1 Hebrew Bible
2.2 Postbiblical Jewish writings
2.3 Early church fathers
2.4 Summary

PART II: JEWISH INFLUENCES ON THE NEW TESTAMENT

Overview of Part II
3 Jewish Cultural Commonplaces
3.1 Personnel
3.2 Worship
3.3 Supernaturalism
3.4 Jewish (or adjacent) movements
3.5 Messianism
3.6 Summary

4 Jewish Literary Conventions
4.1 Exegetical methods
4.2 Pluriform textual traditions
4.3 Exegetical expansions
4.4 Summary

5 Jewish Concrete Influences
5.1 Gospels
5.2 Pauline Epistles
5.3 Catholic Epistles
5.4 Summary
Recap of Part II

PART III: NON-JEWISH INFLUENCES ON THE NEW TESTAMENT

Overview of Part III
6 Non-Jewish Cultural Commonplaces
6.1 Personnel
6.2 Bureaucracy
6.3 Social conventions
6.4 Philosophical/religious movements
6.5 Summary

7 Non-Jewish Literary Conventions
7.1 Genres/subgenres
7.2 Rhetorical strategies
7.3 Tropes/motifs
7.4 Summary

8 Non-Jewish Concrete Influences
8.1 Acts
8.2 Pauline Epistles
8.3 Summary
Recap of Part III

PART IV: PRECANONICAL EARLY CHRISTIAN INFLUENCES

Overview of Part IV
9 Traditions of Jesus
9.1 Biographical material
9.2 Sayings material in Acts
9.3 Sayings material in the Pauline Epistles
9.4 Sayings material in the Catholic Epistles
9.5 Summary

10 Early Apostolic Traditions
10.1 Confessional material
10.2 Liturgical doxologies
10.3 Sermons and prophecies
10.4 Epistolary traces
10.5 Summary

11 Documentary Reuse
11.1 Gospels
11.2 Acts
11.3 Pauline Epistles
11.4 Catholic Epistles and Revelation
11.5 Summary
Recap of Part IV

PART V: CONCLUSION

12 Synthesis of Findings
12.1 Complexity of formation
12.2 Spectrum of engagement
12.3 Navigation of multiple horizons
12.4 Breadth of information flow
12.5 Difference between influence and authority

13 Appendix

Bibliography
Name and Subject Index
Scripture Index
Ancient Sources Index