Mobile Ed: NT309 Critical Issues in the Synoptic Gospels (3 hour course - audio)
Overview
Explore the historical reliability of the Gospels and the controversy of miracles. Probe the Gospels as biographies recounting historical information passed down through written and oral traditions and eyewitness accounts.
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Course Outline
Introduction
- Introducing the Speaker and the Course
Unit 1: The Gospels and History
- Introducing the Gospels
- The Genre of the Gospels
- The Basics of Ancient Biography
- Ancient Biographers
- Source Criticism
- Form Criticism
- Redaction Criticism
- Oral Tradition
- Memorization
- Advanced Education in Antiquity
- Linguistic Evidence for Authenticity
- Eyewitnesses
- The Gospels’ Appeal to Common Knowledge
- Objections to Gospel Reliability
Unit 2: Miracles in the Gospels
- Miracle Reports
- Jesus’ Miracles
- Philosophical Foundations of Naturalism
- The Principle of Uniformity
- Human Experience of the Miraculous
- Eyewitness Reports of Miracles
- More Modern Eyewitness Accounts
- Raised from the Dead
- Accounts from the Congo
- Nature Miracles
Conclusion
- Course Summary
Product Details
- Title: NT309 Critical Issues in the Synoptic Gospels (audio)
- Instructor: Craig S. Keener
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Publication Date: 2016
- Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
- Resource Type: audio
- Length: 3 hours
Partially included
Dr. Craig S. Keener (PhD, Duke University) is professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary, and is the author of 17 books, four of which have won book awards in Christianity Today. One, The IVP Bible Background Commentary: New Testament, has sold more than half a million copies. He has authored scholarly commentaries on Matthew, John (two volumes), Acts (four volumes), and more briefly on Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, and Revelation. Dr. Keener is married to Dr. Médine Moussounga Keener, who spent 18 months as a refugee in her nation of Congo before their marriage.