Textbooks: PartI: Backgrounds of Early Christianity, Everett Ferguson(BEC)1 Introducing the New Testament, Achtemeier, Green, Thompson (AGT) Part II: Interpreting the New Testament, Black and Dockery, eds. (BD) Hearing the New Testament, Joel B. Green (HNT) Part III: Opening the Bible, Thomas Merton (OB) Shaped by the Word, M. Robert Mulholland, Jr. (SW)https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/2744/thumbnail.jp