HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Noumenon, Synoptic Gospels, Early Christianity
22 Mar 2018
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Letters: from leaders of church to members describing the do"s/don"ts of life, a lot of these are written by paul. Apocalypse: conclusion of the christian religion (revelation) Reign: 55-44 bc: 17 year roman civil war, augustus caesar. Marcion (2nd century ce) +12057040984: says jesus has overthrown evil god from the old testament & he is a new god, writing for his own christian communities. New testament (of cial writings): gospels - stories of life of christ, epistles - letters from on christian to another or group of xians. Apocrypha: gospels & epistles not accepted by the church. Differences : judaizers: people who believe you must be jewish to become christian & jesus is supposed to uphold jewish law. 367 ad first time that the 27 writings in the new testament are actually sacred writings. Why does christianity expand: familiar to romans. Dangers of christianity : connections to judaism. Jews are rebellious: resistance to rome.
