Mobile Ed: NT307 Archaeology and the New Testament (5 hour course - audio)

by Craig A. Evans

Publisher:

Lexham Press

, 2015

Overview

Craig Evans describes the world of Jesus and the early church based on archeology. He draws connections between archaeological finds and relevant Scripture passages and theological issues. Evans discusses how archaeology sheds light on the synagogues of Israel, literacy of the time, Pilate and Caiaphas, and burial traditions.

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: The Tasks of Archaeology

• Recovery of Material Culture
• Studying Archaeology with The Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land
• Related Disciplines
• Contribution of Science
• Spectrometrical Analysis: An Example of Science Aiding Archaeology
• Other Enhancements and Analyses
• Important Excavation Sites
• Preview of Remaining Course Topics

Unit 2: Jesus and the Synagogues

• Jesus Visited the Synagogues
• Searching for Synagogue References in the New Testament
• But Were There Synagogues?
• The Capernaum Synagogue
• Have We Found Peter’s House?
• Gamla
• The Herodium
• Jericho
• Studying Jericho with Image Searching and the Bible Facts Report
• Jerusalem
• Magdala
• Masada
• Modi’in and Qiryat Sefer
• Nazareth and Sepphoris
• Researching the Theory that Jesus Was a Jewish Cynic

Unit 3: Books and Artifacts

• Book Culture and Literacy
• The Suffering Servant and Jesus
• Researching New Testament Quotes or Allusions to Isaiah
• The Qumran Scroll and the Leningrad Codex
• The Aramaic Targums

Unit 4: Pilate and Caiaphas

• The Caiaphas Ossuary
• Other High Priests and Miriam
• Finding and Exporting Images of Ossuaries
• Pontius Pilate
• Finding Pilate in the Writings of Josephus and Philo
• Procurator or Prefect?

Unit 5: Jewish Tombs and Burial Traditions

• The Importance of the Archaeology of Burial
• Jewish Burial Practices: Burial and Funeral
• Jewish Burial Practices: Ossilegium
• The Soul Departs Three Days after Death
• Resources for Studying Ancient Cultural Backgrounds

Unit 6: Jesus’ Death and Burial Compared with Jewish Burial Traditions

• Why Such Large Crowds Followed Jesus
• Whitewashed Tombs
• Let the Dead Bury Their Own Dead
• Researching Matthew 8:22 with the Passage Guide
• Lazarus
• Jesus is Anointed with Perfume
• Two Sites Are Claimed to Be Jesus’ Burial Place
• Studying Joseph of Arimathea with Bible Facts
• Jewish Piety Required Burial
• Did Pilate Permit the Burial of Jesus?
• Burial Restrictions for Executed Criminals
• The Death and Burial of Jesus
• The Talpiot Tomb Prompts Speculation
• Solving the Mystery of the Gable
• More Conclusions Concerning the Talpiot Tomb

Conclusion

• Summing Up the Course

Product Details

• Title: NT307 Archaeology and the New Testament (audio)
• Instructor: Craig A. Evans
• Publisher: Lexham Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
• Resource Type: audio
• Length: 5 hours

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About Craig A. Evans

Craig A. Evans earned his PhD in biblical studies at Claremont Graduate University and received his decretum habilitationis from Budapest. He is Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament; Acadia Divinity College Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada; John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins (Houston Theological Seminary); a New Testament scholar; and a prolific author and popular teacher/speaker.

Evans is well-known for his work on the Gospels, the Historical Jesus, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the archaeology of the New Testament. His passion for archaeology has him frequently participating in Middle East digs and leading Holy Land tours. He has regularly appeared in television and radio interviews, such as the History Channel, BBC, and Dateline NBC, served as a consultant on the National Geographic Society's Gospel of Judas project and for The Bible television miniseries, and is featured in documentaries like Fragments of Truth and the Archaeology and Jesus series.

He's written hundreds of articles and reviews and published more than 70 books, including Jesus and His Contemporaries, Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies, Mark in the Word Biblical Commentary, Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels, God Speaks, and Jesus and the Remains of His Days: Studies in Jesus and Archaeology. He coauthored Jesus, the Final Days with N. T. Wright.