Great courses (Compact disc)

Unabridged

Bart D. Ehrman, lecturer

This 24 lecture course provides a historical context to foster a fuller understanding of contemporary events and people in the New Testament. Discusses 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.

Early Christians and their literature --

lecture 2.

Greco-Roman context --

lecture 3.

Ancient Judaism --

lecture 4.

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.

Historical Jesus, sources and problems --

lecture 11.

Historical Jesus, solutions and methods --

lecture 12.

Jesus, the apocalyptic prophet -- pt. 2:

lecture 13.

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.

Deutero-Pauline Epistles --

lecture 20.

Pastoral Epistles --

lecture 21.

Book of Hebrews and the rise of Christian anti-semitism --

lecture 22.

First Peter and the persecution of the early Christians --

lecture 23.

Book of Revelation --

lecture 24.

Do we have the original New Testament?