William Loader is professor emeritus of New Testament at Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, and extraordinary professor at North-West University, South Africa. His many other books include The New Testament with Imagination: A Fresh Approach to Its Writings and Themes and Making Sense of Sex: Attitudes towards Sexuality in Early Jewish and Christian Literature.
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Theology "This is an excellent book, and it can be recommended without hesitation. It is written in a way that makes it understandable to any interested reader, and it deals with a subject that affects both those who are members of churches and those who are not but might be. . . Buy it, read it, lend it, give it away; then repent and buy another copy." Francis J. Moloney, SDB "William Loader has written the book we all need. In our time of rapid change he looks back to Jesus and the Gospel traditions to find guidance for our approach to Scripture. How did Jesus assess the traditions he received? How did his earliest interpreters? Loader's study points the way forward for all who have a passion for the givenness of our Christian past and the exhilarating experience of the present." John P. Meier "In this new work, as in all his writings, Loader proves himself a judicious scholar with a profound command of the secondary literature in the field."