I WELCOME THE PUBLISHER'S INVITATION to offer this third edition of New Testament Exegesis, which is appearing in conjunction with the third edition of Douglas Stuart's Old Testament Exegesis (see Preface to First Edition).
The major "revisions" to this edition are bibliographical an enormous amount of new literature and Internet resources have appeared in the last ten years. At the same time, the basic UBS/Nestle-Aland Greek text has appeared in a new revision (UBS4 and NA27 respectively), as has a newly, considerably revised edition by Frederick W. Danker of the basic Greek lexicon-known by all as "Bauer" but now to be known as BDAG.
This means that Sections 11.2 ("Establishing the Text") and 11.4 ("The Analysis of Words") have been rather thoroughly revised to reflect these new editions, facsimiles of which have also been included.
Books of the kind edited by I. H. Marshall (see Preface to First Edition) and Black and Dockery (Preface to Second Edition), which offer helpful essays on all kinds of matters related to interpreting the New Testament, continue to be forthcoming.
I call attention to these two: Joel B. Green (ed.), Hearing the New Testament: Strategies for Interpretation (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1995).
Stanley E. Porter (ed.), Handbook to Exegesis of the New Testament
(Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1997}.
