An Introduction to the Gospels and Acts. By Alicia D. Myers. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. xvii + 210. $24.95.

Abstract

Myers ’ s contribution to the Essentials of Biblical Studies series is an acces-sible, sophisticated introduction to the New Testament narratives and their history of interpretation. The book covers not only the canonical Gospels and Acts but also apocryphal texts, as well as sociopolitical, literary, and mate-rial history. Myers shows that the work of modern New Testament readers is part of a continuous interpretive conversation that began as soon as the ear-liest stories about Jesus and his followers started circulating, a conversation that has been and is shaped by each interpreter ’ s context.