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What different varieties of books are in the brand new Testament? When, how, and just why were they written? And just why did some books, rather than others, come to be collected into what Christians emerged to consider the cannon of scripture that could define their perception forever? With these 12 lectures, get a fast-moving yet thorough intro to these and other key issues in the introduction of Christianity. Made to deepen the knowledge of both Christians and non-Christians as well, this lecture series requires as its point of view the historical, rather than the theological, issues behind the introduction of the Bible. And it's an illuminating point of view, indeed, varying across issues of dialect, oral history, the physical restrictions of growing the written term at a time when the printing press place far in the future, and, of course, the theological forces that were shaping Christianity, molding a commonly accepted cannon from the many expressions of the beliefs spreading across the ancient world. Professor Ehrman recreates the context of the changing times in which the canon had been assembled to enable you to understand what the message of every written work could have designed to ancient Christians. You'll come to see how the diverse books of the brand new Testament were gathered together in to the form we have now know, whether it's the four canonical Gospels (whose authorship was only attributed by later Christians), the book of Serves, the 21 Epistles, or the book of Revelation (sometimes called the Apocalypse of John). These lectures are a engaging introduction not and then the introduction of the Christian cannon, but to all of the forces that would are likely involved in early Christian history.
