The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown: An Introduction to the New Testament, 2nd Edition

Andreas Köstenberger is senior research professor of New Testament and biblical theology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. He is the founder of Biblical Foundations™ and serves as editor for the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (JETS).

L. Scott Kellum is professor of New Testament and Greek at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Charles Quarles is director of Ph.D. studies and professor of New Testament and biblical theology at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. 
 

"The Cradle, the Cross, and the Crown is a comprehensive and informative introduction to the New Testament. Written from a convictional evangelical perspective, this marvelous volume carefully interacts with the most up-to-date issues in modern scholarship."
—David S. Dockery, president, Trinity International University/Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

"The authors not only provide the reader with a solid orientation to every NT book, but they also directly address a broad range of issues that scholars have raised. The end result is a richly informative text that is very readable and abundantly helpful."
—Clinton E. Arnold, dean and professor of New Testament language and literature, Talbot School of Theology, Biola University

"This volume ranks among the finest such studies of recent decades in classic matters of ’New Testament introduction’….Beyond an impressive digest of scholarship, it is an appeal to faithful appropriation of the New Testament’s message."
—Robert W. Yarbrough, professor of New Testament, Covenant Theological Seminary