What are students for the ministry being taught at seminary? This article looks at two subjects that students must study: the New Testament, and church history.

What should be the dating of the New Testament? This article looks at the book of Luke, Acts, 1 Corinthians, and some external evidence to demonstrate that the dating of the New Testament should be early.

This article commemmorates the work of Richard Bentley on the history of the Greek text of the New Testament.

This article provides a bibliography on relevant resources for the study of literature from the intertestamental period, which is useful for an understanding of the background to the New Testament. Specific attention is given to the Dead Sea Scrolls, but also authors like Philo and Josephus, as well as rabbinic literature and the Talmud.

This article considers the reliability of the New Testament, in light of recent attacks on the infallibility of the Bible.

For the understanding of the New Testament in its original setting, the New Testament theologian needs to appreciate the value of intertestamental Jewish literature as the given background.

The New Testament's use of the Old Testament is a difficult issue. How should we understand Jesus and his apostles' exegetical method and their presuppositions? Beale reflects on this hermeneutical issue. Related issues like typology are touched upon.