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Creator: Forbes, Chris Date: 1992 Contributing Institution: Moore Theological College Description: 1. What is a Gospel? Issues. 2. Issue one: How would an ancient librarian catalogue Mark's gospel? 3. Issue two: How did the "Synoptic Gospels" come to be written? 4. The transmission of stories about Jesus: stages along the way. 5. Issues arising. View Full Item at Moore Theological College -
Creator: Forbes, Chris Date: 1992 Contributing Institution: Moore Theological College Description: 1. The problem: with Acts, unlike with the Gospels, we have only one major source. 2. Things we need to know about Acts in order to decide its historical value. 3. The world Acts describes. View Full Item at Moore Theological College -
Creator: Forbes, Chris Date: 1992 Contributing Institution: Moore Theological College Description: 1. The seven seals and the seven trumpets. God's people in the world. 2. The seven trumpets and the two witnesses. 3. Revelation 12:1-12; 21:1-5. 4. What did its first hearers learn from this strange book? 5. What do we learn from it? View Full Item at Moore Theological College -
Creator: Forbes, Chris Date: 1992 Contributing Institution: Moore Theological College Description: 1. The question: what were the major schools of thought within first century Judaism? 2. The major sources of evidence: Josephus. Other sources. The various groups. 3. The Sadducees. 4. The Priests: their role in Judaism. 5. The Essenes. 6. The Qumran Community: the "people of the Dead Sea Scroll... View Full Item at Moore Theological College -
Creator: Forbes, Chris Date: 1992 Contributing Institution: Moore Theological College Description: 1. The Rise of Rome and the weakening of the Kingdom. 2. The three stage of the 'national war of liberation." 3. "Hellenization" continues: why? The nature of cultural change. 4. The Roman civil wars and the rise of the Herods. 5. The world into which Jesus was born. View Full Item at Moore Theological College -
Creator: Forbes, Chris Date: 1992 Contributing Institution: Moore Theological College Description: 1. The problem of finding Jesus' own view. 2. The implicit evidence. 3. The explicit evidence: primarily titles used by Jesus, by others and himself. 4. The mission to Israel, and Jesus' promise to the nations. 5. More than a prophet? View Full Item at Moore Theological College -
Creator: Forbes, Chris Date: 1992 Contributing Institution: Moore Theological College Description: 1. Apocalyptic literature: a whole style of writing. 2. The Book of Revelation as an apocalyptic work. 3. The structure of the Book of Revelation: sets of sevens. 4. The Letters to the Seven Churches: historical context. 5. The structure of the Book of Revelation. View Full Item at Moore Theological College -
Creator: Forbes, Chris Date: 1992 Contributing Institution: Moore Theological College Description: 1. Introduction: the enigma of John's Gospel. 2. The problem of history and theology in this Gospel. 3. John and the Synoptics. 4. The recent reassessment of John's Gospel. 5. The authorship of the Gospel. 6. Problems raised to the assessment of authorship. 7. John's particular contribution. View Full Item at Moore Theological College -
Creator: Forbes, Chris Date: 1992 Contributing Institution: Moore Theological College Description: 1. The Scribes and the Pharisees: but what's a Pharisee? 2. Where does the term come from? 3. Who called themselves Pharisees? Judaism before and after 70 A.D. 4. What is their relationship to Jesus and the first Christians? 5. Conclusions: a much aligned group of people. View Full Item at Moore Theological College -
Creator: Forbes, Chris Date: 1992 Contributing Institution: Moore Theological College Description: 1. St. Paul: the most influential, and the least read and understood early Christian leader. 2. Basic ideas in St. Paul's thought. 3. St. Paul the critic of morality. View Full Item at Moore Theological College