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Step back to Christianity's first three centuries to see how it transitioned from the religion of Jesus to a religion about Jesus. How have an individual group from among many win the have difficulties for dominance to determine the values central to the trust, rewrite the history of Christianity's interior conflicts, and create a cannon of sacred text messages - the New Testament - that recognized its views? These 24 lectures give a fresh and provocative point of view about how a motion of perhaps only 20 lower-class followers of an Jewish apocalyptic preacher crucified as an opponent of the state of hawaii grew to add almost four million adherents in only 300 years. Professor Ehrman looks at the faith's beginnings, starting with the historical Jesus, Jewish-Christian relations, the way Paul and other Christians propagate the new trust, hostility to the Religious mission, internal struggles within the trust, and the forming of traditional Christianity as we know it today. Christianity argued its traditional roots by keeping the Jewish scriptures and arguing that it was, in fact, the fulfillment of what those scriptures experienced promised. Throughout these lectures, Professor Ehrman troubles old misconceptions and will be offering fresh perspectives on areas of Christianity and its own roots that many of us may have thought we already comprehended. By proclaiming to offer you a scholar's point of view on the roots of what Professor Ehrman identifies as the main institution in European civilization, this engaging course increase your understanding of Christianity today.
