Study Class
Parallels-Stories of Greek and Jewish Heroes
For the writers of the gospel, Jesus in more alive and life-giving now than he was when he was walking in the hills of Galilee. This is utterly unique in ancient literature.
The Context-Jesus in the Memory of the Church
One of Act' deficiencies is that it is clearly selective in its account. Like a good Hellenistic historian. Luke is more interested in cities that he is in rural life, so we learn nothing about the spread of Christianity in the countryside but only in the cities.
Earliest Stages-Paul and the Oral Tradition
In the last lecture, we sketched the rapid spread of Christianity-across the Mediterranean world,... We first see Christianity as a series of small communities ... scattered ... from Syria to Italy. ... In this presentation, I .... (try) show the stages toward Gospel composition as we consider Paul and the oral tradition.
Why Compose Gospels?
In fact, the word gospel meant originally, as used by Paul, the word Euangelion, good news. It had nothing to do with a story abut Jesus and what Jesus said and what Jesus did. Come and learn more on Sunday.
The Synoptic Problem and Its Solutions
If we go to the material after the empty, Matthew and Luke share nothing. And in the rest of the story, where they don't follow Mark, they don't agree with each other either, so how do we account for this?