RLG100Y1 Lecture 10: RLG100 LECTURE NOTES 11
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Last class: everything we don"t know about the life of jesus, sources that we thought of constructing some manner of this life, christianity as a sect of judaism increasingly starts to disassociate itself from. Gift with communication evolved ways of speaking that had the effect of cutting through all the layers of doctrine and theology to get directly to the common people spoke language of the common people. Early communities one of the way they communicated themselves was by collecting his sayings and passing them on, sharing them among each other. Over the course of time, the understanding of scholars said to be written down. Later would become the major source for the reconstruction of jesus"s life, major source for the gospels. Collection of sayings known as the q gospel: passed around jesus"s disciples and becomes the architecture for his life, already said that much of what jesus taught is based on his jewish background.
