This book introduces sociolinguistic criticism to New Testament studies. It utilizes a wide range of sociolinguistic theories, principles, and concepts in treating the language and sociolinguistic contexts of the New Testament, social memory, orality and literacy, and the oral traditions of the Gospels, and various texts and genres in the New Testament.

Hughson T. Ong, PhD (2015), McMaster Divinity College, McMaster University (Canada), is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Emmanuel Bible College (Canada). He is author of The Multilingual Jesus and the Sociolinguistic World of the New Testament (Brill, 2016) and numerous New Testament journal articles and book essays using sociolinguistic and linguistic methodologies. He is also the co-editor of The Origins of John's Gospel (Brill, 2016) and Is the Gospel Good News? (Wipf & Stock, 2019).