The New Testament
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
Discover how historical research can illuminate the New Testament in this riveting course that combines biblical scholarship, archaeology, and literary analysis.
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: The Early Christians and Their Literature
- 02: The Greco-Roman Context
- 03: Ancient Judaism
- 04: The Earliest Traditions About Jesus
- 05: Mark-Jesus the Suffering Son of God
- 06: Matthew-Jesus the Jewish Messiah
- 07: Luke-Jesus the Savior of the World
- 08: John-Jesus the Man from Heaven
- 09: Noncanonical Gospels
- 10: The Historical Jesus-Sources and Problems
- 11: The Historical Jesus-Solutions and Methods
- 12: Jesus the Apocalyptic Prophet
- 13: The Acts of the Apostles
- 14: Paul-The Man, the Mission, and the Modus Operandi
- 15: Paul and the Crises of His Churches-First Corinthians
- 16: Pauline Ethics
- 17: Paul's Letter to the Romans
- 18: Paul, Jesus, and James
- 19: The Deutero-Pauline Epistles
- 20: The Pastoral Epistles
- 21: The Book of Hebrews and the Rise of Christian Anti-Semitism
- 22: First Peter and the Persecution of the Early Christians
- 23: The Book of Revelation
- 24: Do We Have the Original New Testament?
Taught by
Bart D. Ehrman
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