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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...

WHEN Jesus died there remained to His followers the heritage of the powerful impressions which they received from His personality. There remained also the remembrance of His words and of the substance of His teaching. But no written heirloom was left to them. For Jesus wrote nothing. He was no learned author, no theologian. He was more than this, a free-grown son of the people. He was not busied with books, or with the exposition of the maxims of the Law, like men
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