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    occupation, and the Jewish factions of the time, seeing Jesus as a Jew in this environment; and the written New Testament as arising from a period of oral gospel...
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    of Bible stories. New Testament stories are the pericopes or stories from the New Testament of Christianity. For a list of all events in the life of Jesus...
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  • Christ myth theory Historical background of New Testament Historical Jesus Historicity of Jesus In a 2011 review of the state of modern scholarship,...
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  • Christianity. The New Testament's background, the first division of the Christian Bible, is called the Old Testament, which is based primarily upon the Hebrew...
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    contexts—some of whom have to translate the stories into different languages. — Bart D. Ehrman, The New Testament. A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian...
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    (1997). The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings. Oxford University Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-19-508481-8. The New Testament...
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  • The New Testament was written in a form of Koine Greek, which was the common language of the Eastern Mediterranean from the conquests of Alexander the...
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  • Chronology of Jesus Denial of the virgin birth of Jesus Historical background of the New Testament Historicity of Muhammad Historicity of the Bible Jesus...
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  • In contrast to the variety of absolute or personal names of God in the Old Testament, the New Testament uses only two, according to the International Standard...
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  • Historical background of the New Testament Historicity of the Bible Jesus in comparative mythology Jesus Seminar Life of Jesus in the New Testament Mental...
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    "Unsealing of Christ's Reputed Tomb Turns Up New Revelations". National Geographic. Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City. Archived from the original...
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    genre of religious texts that arose in the 2nd century. They are part of New Testament apocrypha, and provide accounts of the birth and early life of Jesus...
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  • Blood of Christ List of artifacts significant to the Bible Life of Jesus in the New Testament Dillenberger 1999, p. 5 Thurston, Herbert (1913). "Holy Nails" ...
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    Since 1980, scholars have debated the translation and modern relevance of New Testament texts on homosexuality. Three distinct passages (Romans 1:26–27...
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  • her historical conclusions on her application of the so-called Pesher technique (interpretation based on ancient commentaries) to the New Testament. In...
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  • many statues of Jesus, including: Christ the Redeemer is perhaps the most famous statue of Jesus, located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Christ the King is another...
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    Outside the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. p. 23. Theissen & Merz 1998, p. 83. Theissen, Gerd; Merz, Annette (1998). The historical Jesus: a...
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    Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2000. p 113 Chilton, Bruce, Studying the Historical Jesus:...
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    religions. Although the vast majority of New Testament scholars and historians of the ancient Near East agree that Jesus existed as a historical figure, most...
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    the Lord. New Testament scholars Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan characterize this as a pre-planned "counterprocession" in contrast to that of the...
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  • The canon of the New Testament is the set of books many modern Christians regard as divinely inspired and constituting the New Testament of the Christian...
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    Gospels of the New Testament (Matthew, Mark and Luke). It is considered to have taken place at Al-Maghtas (also called Bethany Beyond the Jordan), today...
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    The Restoration of Peter (also known as the Re-commissioning of Peter) is an incident described in John 21 of the New Testament in which Jesus appeared...
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    Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence. Eerdmans Publishing. ISBN 0-8028-4368-9 pages 53-56 Studying the Historical Jesus:...
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    Aland, Barbara (1995). The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism...
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  • closure of the New Testament canon. The antilegomena were widely read in the Early Church and included the Epistle of James, the Epistle of Jude, 2 Peter,...
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    ascension. Other parts of the New Testament – such as the Pauline epistles which were likely written within 20 to 30 years of each other, and which include...
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    Cultural and Historical Background of the New Testament, and History and Theology of Modern Israel are scheduled for the students around the country of Israel...
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    theory Historical background of the New Testament Historicity of Jesus Jesusism Liberal Christianity Liberal religion Quest for the historical Jesus Two-source...
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    The New Testament narrative of the life of Jesus refers to a number of locations in the Holy Land and a Flight into Egypt. In these accounts the principal...
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