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NT312 The Gospels and Ancient Pedagogy is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Gospels are 2000-year-old texts, so as you read them it is important to understand the ancient genre they represent. In this course, Evans surveys the Gospels, discusses issues of text criticism, and explains ancient teaching methods so you understand not only what Jesus taught, but how he taught it and why his lessons are recorded as they are across the Gospel texts.

We have about four dozen manuscripts, Greek NT manuscripts, that date to the year 300 or earlier. In other words, before Constantine even became emperor, before the Council of Nicaea took place in 325. And these four dozen manuscripts contain almost all of the NT when they’re added up together. We have a large chunk of the four Gospels that’s in a manuscript called P45. It dates to perhaps as early as the year 200, maybe 210 or 220. In other words, it’s written about 150 years or so after the original
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