RELG 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Synoptic Gospels

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 210
• Professor: Frederick Tappenden

Document Summary

Paul doesn"t talk about jesus teaching, action, or his role as a miracle worker - only jesus rising from the dead. His community was (remembered jesus) very different from others. We should focus on jesus" jewishness, yet john has it jesus blaming the jews - you can"t divorce jews from such. Instead: judeans who worshiped christ and those who didn"t - a intra-jewish dispute! These jewish gospels give us such context what it meant to be a jew . Those jewish gospels are in pieces, why: they fell out of views under christian church - lost in history - not terribly bad nor very helpful, seems heretical (an alternative expression of early christian faith) Dating the grerton gospel - dug up in egypt; easiest nt fragment; from john. Not a god; but a law keeper - he was a man dependent on synoptics, likely a harmony a. 75-125 related to the synoptics, and john abut likely independent from them.