RLG203H5 Lecture : Christianity September 17.docx
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Christianity september 17, 2012 http://rlg203fall2012. tumblr. com: final exam questions will be from the blog. Jesus: baptized and became a preacher and eventually was executed, don"t have sources from actual time of jesus so there are many interpretations and thus find many jesus. Jesus was close to a thriving environment which would require a level of sophistication unlike the humble carpenter: few scholars believe in jesus low birth and was a have-not carpenter. What do the different portraits of jesus in the gospels tell us about how his life was understood? : numerous gospels, not just one source (ex. Theatre, hebrews, etc. : gospels in the testament were canon -means the rest are measured based on this. Gospel = good news, message: gospel writers were called evangelist which were angel messengers. Jesus" 4 wrote them (mark-lebanon, mathew-judaeo, luke-greece, turkey, john- west. Gospel mark: earliest and shorted (just after 70ce) for greek-speaking, jewish-christian community outside of judea/galilee)
