RELI 1710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Synoptic Gospels, First Epistle To The Thessalonians, Second Epistle To The Thessalonians
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Beliefs : only difference between hebrew bible and old testament is the order of sections, bible originally in greek language. In the new testament, there are 4 distinct sections that comprise the new testament: Called: matthew, placed first possibly since it is the most jewish" of the writing styles of the other books, better for a transition, mark. Named after people, bet they are completely anonymous no names, dates, authors, provenance, anything: acts (history of a movement), Also anonymous some churches believe that the author of luke and acts were by same person since they are both dedicated to the same person same writing style letters (many with many different authors) Letters of paul (written first among all the other things in the new testament) Jude: apocalypse (genre of jewish writing that christians take over) Letters of paul (50-55 ce: first letter is i thessalonians, possible chronological order of the letters: