title: The New Testament as Literature: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
author:  Kyle Keefer 
description: <br />"Keefer successfully, and often brilliantly, embarks specifically on a series of literary readings of the books of the New Testament, which are accessible, provocative and theologically highly suggestive... This will be an excellent book for students beginning with the study of the Bible, but also for the general reader, its scholarship unobtrusive but certain, its tone simple but never patronizing... I look forward to encouraging my students to read this book as a sure first step in their coming to understand the New Testament as literature."--David Jasper, University of Glasgow, <em>Literature</em> <em>and Theology</em>
zlib_text: The New Testament as Literature:  
  A Very Short Introduction
  
  **Very Short Introductions available now:**
  
  > AFRICAN HISTORY **John Parker and Richard Rathbone**
  
  > AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES AND ELECTIONS **L. Sandy Maisel**
  
  > THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY **Charles O. Jones**
  
  > ANARCHISM **Colin Ward**
  
  > ANCIENT EGYPT **Ian Shaw**
  
  > ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY **Julia Annas**
  
  > ANCIENT WARFARE **Harry Sidebottom**
  
  > ANGLICANISM **Mark Chapman**
  
  > THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE **John Blair**
  
  > ANIMAL RIGHTS **David DeGrazia**
  
  > ANTISEMITISM **Steven Beller**
  
  > ARCHAEOLOGY **Paul Bahn**
  
  > ARCHITECTURE **Andrew Ballantyne**
  
  > ARISTOTLE **Jonathan Barnes**
  
  > ART HISTORY **Dana Arnold**
  
  > ART THEORY **Cynthia Freeland**
  
  > THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY **Michael Hoskin**
  
  > ATHEISM **Julian Baggini**
  
  > AUGUSTINE **Henry Chadwick**
  
  > AUTISM **Uta Frith**
  
  > BARTHES **Jonathan Culler**
  
  > BESTSELLERS **John Sutherland**
  
  > THE BIBLE **John Riches**
  
  > THE BRAIN **Michael O 'Shea**
  
  > BRITISH POLITICS **A