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The New Testament, taught by Professor Bart D. Ehrman, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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The New Testament

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taught by Professor Bart D. Ehrman, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Provides a historical context to foster a fuller understanding of contemporary events and people in the New Testament. Discuses distinguishing characteristics between the Greco-Roman cults and Judaism and Christianity, Jesus as a historical figure, and each of the twenty-seven books of the New Testament

pt. 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 -- 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 prophet -- pt. 2: 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 -- lecture 19. The Deutero-Pauline Epistles -- lecture 20. The Pastoral Epistles -- lecture 21. The Book of Hebrew 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?