RELI 1710 Lecture Notes - Synoptic Gospels, Second Epistle To The Thessalonians, Kashrut
17 Feb 2014
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Modern biography: psychological portrait of a character of a person. Getting inside their head, understanding them as an individual. Assumption that it is not made up in modern biography. Ancient writers were not interested in truth, but entertainment mainly. Acts: the book of acts, the acts of the apostles. Letters: actual letters written from one person to another. When people assume that these texts are present it in chronological order. Assume that the gospels are the earliest writings of christianity. The earliest writings are the letters of paul. Undisputed letters: certain that paul himself wrote these letters. They are in a hypothetical order: none of them include a date. 2 corinthians: this idea is going very well. Deutero-pauline letters (the next three) written in paul"s voice. Interesting that the earliest writings we have of christians is in the form of letters. Paul"s letters are all about putting out fires: crises.
