Understanding the New Testament
DVD - 2020
In these 24 eye-opening lectures, Professor David Brakke takes viewers behind the scenes to study not only the text of the New Testament, but also the authors and the world in which it was created.
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- Educational films
Instructional films
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Lectures
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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Chantilly, VA :
The Great Courses
[2020]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Corporate Author
- Item Description
- "The Great courses, Topic: Religion & Theology ; Subtopic: Christianity"--Cover.
24 lectures lasting 30 minutes each.
"Course number 6006"--Disc labels.
Title from disc labels.
Issued with a booklet that includes course scope, lecture guides, multiple choice quiz and bibliography (pages 189-195). - Physical Description
- 4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (iv, 195 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
- Format
- DVD.
- ISBN
- 9781629978000
- Disc 1. The paradox of the New Testament
- The Jewish origins of Christian faith
- 1 Tessalonians and Paul's ministry
- The salvation of Gentiles in Galatians
- Romans on God, faith, and Israel
- Community conflicts in 1-2 Corinthians
- Disc 2. Worship and leaders in Paul's congregations
- Paul's theology on slavery and Christ
- Adapting Paul's teachings to new situations
- Jesus as the suffering son of man in Mark
- Jesus as the new Moses in Matthew
- The Church in the Gospel of Matthew
- Disc 3. Luke and Acts on God's history of salvation
- Luke's inclusive message
- The Apostles and Church in Luke and Acts
- Jesus as the Divine Word in John
- Jesus and the Jews in the Gospel of John
- The community of John after the Gospel
- Disc 4. In search of the historical Jesus
- Interpreting Abraham in Hebrews and James
- Churches in crisis in 1-2 Peter and Jude
- New Leaders in the Pastoral Epistles
- Revelation: envisioning God's reality
- The quest for unity in the New Testament.