Mobile Ed: NT312 The Gospels and Ancient Pedagogy (3 hour course - audio)
Overview
The Gospels are 2000-year-old texts, so as you read them it is important to understand the ancient genre they represent. In this course, Craig Evans surveys the Gospels, discusses issues of text criticism, and explains ancient teaching methods so you understand not only what Jesus taught, but how he taught it and why his lessons are recorded as they are across the Gospel texts.
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Course Outline
Introduction
- Introducing the Speaker and the Course
Unit 1: Gospels: Chronology, Canonicity and Text
- Gospel of Mark
- Researching the Dating of Mark’s Gospel with Custom Collections
- Gospel of Matthew
- Surveying the Jewish Temples with Bible Facts and the Timeline
- Gospel of Luke
- Examining the Greek Word behind Paul and Barnabas’ “Sharp Disagreement”
- Gospel of John
- Examining the Identity of the “Beloved Disciple”
- Early Canonicity and Stable Text
Unit 2: Gospels: Jewish Versions
- A Hebrew Matthew?
- Hebrew Matthew: Two Approaches
- Shem Tov’s Hebrew Matthew: Part 1
- Finding the Frequency of “God” in the Gospels
- Shem Tov’s Hebrew Matthew: Part 2
- Shem Tov’s Hebrew Matthew: Part 3
- Using the Sermon Starter Guide to Research the Kingdom of God
- Shem Tov’s Hebrew Matthew: Part 4
- Patristic Evidence of a Hebrew Matthew
- Ways of Citing Jewish Gospels
- Origen: Gospel of the Nazarenes
- Epiphanius: Gospel of the Ebionites
- Jerome: Gospel of the Nazarenes
Unit 3: Historiography and Pedagogy
- Introducing Historiography and Pedagogy
- Historiography: Truthful but Not Verbatim
- Pedagogy: Memorization but Not Verbatim
- Researching Differences in the Gospels
Unit 4: The Synoptic Problem
- Introducing the Synoptic Problem
- Examples of the Synoptic Differences
- Synoptic Case Study: Stilling the Storm
Conclusion
- Summary Observations
Product Details
- Title: NT312 The Gospels and Ancient Pedagogy (audio)
- Instructor: Craig A. Evans
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Publication Date: 2015
- Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
- Resource Type: audio
- Length: 3 hours
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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.