Williamsburg Regional Library

The New Testament, Teaching Company ; producer, Noreen Bizzarri

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Includes bibliographical references

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The New Testament

videorecording

537371268

Teaching Company ; producer, Noreen Bizzarri

720

The great courses. Religion & theology

Presents a series of twenty-four lectures that examines in detail the New Testament. Professor Bart Ehrman discusses its form, the methods of composition, its authors and their original audiences, and the surrounding historical context. He focuses on questions of historical evidence and explanation rather than on issues of religious belief and theological truth

Part 1. Disc 1. Lecture 1. The early Christians and their literature ; lecture 2. The Greco-Roman context ; lecture 3. Ancient Judaism ; lecture 4. The earliest traditions about Jesus ; lecture 5. Mark : Jesus the suffering son of God ; lecture 6. Matthew : Jesus the Jewish messiah -- Disc 2. Lecture 7. Luke : Jesus the savior of the world ; lecture 8. John : Jesus the man from heaven ; lecture 9. Noncanonical gospels ; lecture 10. The historical Jesus, sources and problems ; lecture 11. The historical Jesus, solutions and methods ; lecture 12. Jesus the apocalyptic prophetPart 2. Disc 3. Lecture 13. The Acts of the apostles ; lecture 14. Paul, the man, the mission and the modus operandi ; lecture 15. Paul and the crises of his churches : First Corinthians ; lecture 16. Pauline ethics ; lecture 17. Paul's Letter to the Romans ; lecture 18. Paul, Jesus, and James -- Disc 4. Lecture 19. The Deutero-Pauline Epistles ; lecture 20. The Pastoral Epistles ; lecture 21. The Book of Hebrews and the rise of Christian anti-semitism ; lecture 22. First Peter and the persecution of the early Christians ; lecture 23. The Book of Revelation ; lecture 24. Do we have the original New Testament?

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