CHRI 1323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: New Revised Standard Version, New King James Version, New Covenant
Document Summary
Introduction to the new testament: the nt name (1) christians generally believe that the bible is composed of two parts, ot, nt (2) A. d. 45-95: traditional view of authorship, written by the apostles matthew, john, paul, peter, other authors either associates of jesus or one of the apostles. They also put words into the mouth of jesus and others that were not actually said by jesus or the other characters in the narrative: these persons or schools are called redactors (editors). One book may have many redactors: the nt books were written primarily in koine greek, although some say that matthew was written in aramaic. Their disciples and other 2nd century leaders began quoting from the original authors" writing to verify the validity of their teachings about the true christian faith. 3: the muratorian canon is the earliest known christian canon of the nt writings.
