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New Testament

New Testament. BCM 103 Dr. Dave Mathewson Gordon College/Denver Seminary. The Christmas Story Retold. The wisemen ? An Inn and Innkeeper? When did Mary have the Baby? No room? Where were the animals kept? What did the manger look like?. Reading Critically.

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New Testament

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  1. New Testament BCM 103Dr. Dave MathewsonGordon College/Denver Seminary

  2. The Christmas Story Retold • The wisemen? • An Inn and Innkeeper? • When did Mary have the Baby? • No room? • Where were the animals kept? • What did the manger look like?

  3. Reading Critically • What does it mean to read the Bible critically?—skeptical, doubting • What role do critical methods play? • How do we define criticism? • Reading the Bible as a textbook

  4. The Canon of the NT • When and how did these 27 documents get shaped into a NT collection? • NT arranged logically not chronologically • OT as the church’s Bible initially • Canon – a reed • A measurement • A collection of authoritative writings

  5. The Canon of the NT • So also our beloved brother Paul wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, speaking as he does in all his letters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant…twist…as they do the other Scriptures (2 Peter 3.15-16). • Marcion: OT contra NT

  6. Athanasius’ Letter • Again, we must not hesitate to name the books of the New Testament. They are as follows: Four Gospels-according to Matthew, according to Mark, according to Luke, according to John. Then after these the Acts of the Apostle and the seven so-called catholic epistles of the apostles, as follows: one of James, two of Peter, three of John and, after these, one of Jude. Next to these are fourteen epistles of the apostle Paul, written in order as follows: First to the Romans, then two to the Corinthians, and after these to the Galatians and next that to the Ephesians, then to the Philippians, then to the Colossians and two to the Thessalonians and that to the Hebrews. Next are two to Timothy, and last the one to Philemon Moreover, John’s Apocalypse.

  7. Canonicity • So who decides? • Conformity • Universal acceptance • Apostolic authority

  8. On Genre • Literary Genre and reading a document

  9. Literary Genres of the NT • Narrative (Gospels and Acts)

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