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New Testament History

Course Description
A survey of the intertestamental period, the life of Christ, and the formation of the Early Church with special attention to the Roman, Greek, and Jewish contexts of the New Testament period as portrayed in the Gospels and Acts.

Instructor: Dr. David Calhoun

Course Contents
Course audio files are in MP3 format.
Study Guides are in PDF format.

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MP3 Lectures & Resource List (numbered items are the course lectures)	Lecture Transcript	Study Guide
Course Syllabus		PDF
1. Introduction		PDF
2. Politics: Assyria to Alexander		PDF
3. Politics: Hellenistic Period		PDF
4. Politics: Roman Empire		PDF
5. Politics: Palestine under Rome		PDF
6. Culture: Greek Cities & Language		PDF
7. Culture: Greco-Roman Religion		PDF
8. Culture: Greek Philosophy		PDF
9. Culture: Emperor Worship		PDF
10. Religion: Temple & Synagogue		PDF
11. Religion: Priests & Sanhedrin		PDF
12. Religion: Sadducees & Pharisees		PDF
13. Religion: Essenes & Zealots		PDF
14. Religion: Common People & Dispersion		PDF
15. Jesus: Sources		PDF
16. Jesus: Chronology		PDF
17. Jesus: Ancestry, Birth & Infancy		PDF
18. Jesus: Boyhood & Ministry Beginnings		PDF
19. Jesus: the Disciples		PDF
20. Jesus: Religious Leaders		PDF
21. Jesus: Common People		PDF
22. Jesus: Messiah		PDF
23. Jesus: Arrest & Trial		PDF
24. Jesus: Crucifixion		PDF
25. Jesus: Burial & Resurrection		PDF
26. Early Church: Acts		PDF
27. Early Church: Peter		PDF
28. Early Church: Stephen/Gentile Mission		PDF
29. Early Church: James/Jewish Christians		PDF
30. Paul: Pharisee/Christian		PDF
31. Paul: Missionary, I		PDF
32. Paul: Missionary, II		PDF
33. Apollos, Acts 19, Hebrews		PDF
34. John, Ephesus, Close of Apostolic Era		PDF

Related Readings
All of the books specified as related reading for this course are listed below. Books may be ordered from a local Christian bookstore, through a mail order catalog, from the Covenant Seminary Online Store, or from the Covenant Seminary Bookstore on campus (call toll-free at 877-213-3353).

New Testament History, F.F. Bruce

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