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In this short work, Wrede presents a higher critical view of how the New Testament Scriptures came to be. Originally delivered as lectures to laypeople, this concise work is straightforward and accessible. Wrede argues that Paul’s writings are the earliest of the New Testament. This, of course, fits well with the thesis of his other work, Paul, in which he argues that the apostle was the second...

precisely in these sections quite distinct from that of Luke. Matthew gives a series of the logia of Jesus which have a sharp Jewish or Judaic-Christian tone. For example, the apostles are expressly forbidden to go to the heathen and Samaritans (10:5), the inviolable value of the law is emphasised (5:17); and so it is said: “Pray that your flight be not”—in the coming distress—“in the winter or on the Sabbath” (24:20), in which saying there is the implication that the law forbids a long journey on
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