Sin in the New Testament

Dr. Jeffrey S. Siker has taught at Loyola Marymount University since 1987 in the areas of New Testament, early Jewish/Christian relations, the Bible and Ethics, and the history of biblical interpretation. Dr. Siker has been awarded research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Catholic Biblical Association, the Wabash Center, and has been a Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem. Dr. Siker is an active Presbyterian minister. He is married to Judy Siker, herself a biblical scholar and PCUSA minister, and together they have five grown children.

• Preface Chapter 1: Whatever Happened to Sin?Chapter 2: A Taxonomy of Sin in the New Testament WorldsChapter 3: Sin in the Gospel of MarkChapter 4: Sin in the Gospel of MatthewChapter 5: Sin in Luke-ActsChapter 6: Sin in the Gospel of John and the Johannine EpistlesChapter 7: Sin in the Letters of Paul and Deutero-PaulChapter 8: Sin in Hebrews, James, and 1 & 2 PeterChapter 9: Sin in Jude, Revelation, and BeyondChapter 10: Sin Then and Now BibliographyIndex

In this volume Siker, professor of NT at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, examines what the NT writings have to say about sin, with attention to the distinctive and diverse voices we find there, attending to both continuities and discontinuities across the writings, while placing them within their larger Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts.