

Jesus and the Gospels
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第 季第 1 集1 - Why Not "The Historical Jesus"?
2024年4月17日31 分鐘This opening lecture shows how history is and is not helpful in learning about Jesus and why a comparative literary analysis of the Gospels is at once a more responsible and satisfying way to engage this fascinating yet illusive person.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集2 - The Starting Point—The Resurrection Experience
2024年4月17日30 分鐘Virtually everything we know about Jesus comes from Christian sources. This lecture takes up the starting point for engaging Jesus: the distinctive Christian understanding of the resurrection.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集3 - The Matrix—Symbolic World of Greek and Jew
2024年4月17日30 分鐘This lecture introduces the complex 1st-century mixture from which Jesus and the Gospels arose, including Mediterranean culture, Greek ideals and realities, Roman governance, and the religion of Israel.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集4 - Parallels—Stories of Greek and Jewish Heroes
2024年4月17日30 分鐘This lecture provides a context for approaching the distinctive character of the Christian Gospels through a survey of stories told about other significant figures in Greco-Roman and Jewish cultures.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集5 - The Context—Jesus in the Memory of the Church
2024年4月17日30 分鐘The Gospels are compositions from the communal memory of the earliest Christian movement. This lecture sketches the first stages of that movement and the social settings within which Jesus was remembered.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集6 - Earliest Stages—Paul and the Oral Tradition
2024年4月17日31 分鐘Over a period of some 40 years, the memory of Jesus was shaped by the continuing experience of believers in communities. We consider the basic patterns of memory found in the oral tradition.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集7 - Why Compose Gospels?
2024年4月17日31 分鐘The writings of Gospels represented a real shift in the understanding of "good news." The answer to the question "Why compose Gospels?" leads to a consideration of the nature of the Gospels.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集8 - The Synoptic Problem and Its Solutions
2024年4月17日31 分鐘Three of the canonical Gospels are alike and different in striking and puzzling ways. This lecture exposes what is known as the synoptic problem and offers solutions, including a discussion of the hypothetical source of sayings known as "Q."免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集9 - Gospel of Mark—Apocalyptic and Irony
2024年4月17日30 分鐘This lecture deals with the literary aspects of Mark, particularly the creation of dramatic tension, the apocalyptic outlook of the Gospel, and the ironic way the evangelist turns apocalyptic.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集10 - Gospel of Mark—Good News in Mystery
2024年4月17日31 分鐘This lecture examines the powerful and paradoxical Jesus created by Mark. For humans, it is a mystery that both attracts and repels.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集11 - Gospel of Mark—Teacher and Disciples
2024年4月17日31 分鐘The drama of discipleship in Mark's narrative instructs readers concerning their allegiance to Jesus. Readers are to imitate him, not his first followers.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集12 - Gospel of Mark—Passion and Death
2024年4月17日31 分鐘Mark has prepared his readers for Jesus' suffering and death by a series of prophetic statements, but the importance of Jesus' death—and the way he died—is shown by the amount of attention Mark gives to Jesus' last days.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集13 - Gospel of Matthew—Synagogue Down the Street
2024年4月17日31 分鐘Because Matthew uses Mark's Gospel in constructing his own version of the good news, it is possible to deduce with considerable confidence his own interests, which point to a context of competition and conversation with Pharisaic Judaism.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集14 - Gospel of Matthew—The Messiah of Israel
2024年4月17日31 分鐘Matthew's concern with proving that Jesus is the Messiah spoken of by the prophets is shown by the genealogy with which his Gospel opens, his infancy account, and his use of explicit scriptural citations.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集15 - Gospel of Matthew—Jesus and Torah
2024年4月17日31 分鐘Matthew's Gospel not only shows that Jesus' life fulfills messianic expectations as expressed in Torah, but also shows Jesus as the definitive interpreter and very personification of Torah.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集16 - Gospel of Matthew—Teacher and Lord
2024年4月17日31 分鐘Matthew's careful redaction of Mark's use of "Teacher" and "Lord" shows that Jesus is understood as the risen Lord who teaches the church. No other Gospel gives such explicit attention to the instruction of the church as such.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集17 - Luke-Acts—The Prophetic Gospel
2024年4月17日31 分鐘The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles form a single literary composition in two volumes that can properly be called "Luke's Gospel."免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集18 - Gospel of Luke—God’s Prophet
2024年4月17日30 分鐘In Luke's Gospel, Jesus is presented as a prophet, delivering a radical message of reversal of human norms in the name of God's visitation.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集19 - Gospel of Luke—The Prophet and the People
2024年4月17日30 分鐘This lecture examines Luke's portrayal of Jesus' call for a real conversion, along with the distinctive passion account that shifts blame toward Jewish leaders and away from ordinary Jewish people.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集20 - Acts of the Apostles—The Prophet's Movement
2024年4月17日30 分鐘Jesus' followers prove themselves to be prophetic and radical successors, including extending Jesus' understanding of God's people by an even more radical inclusion: accepting the Gentiles into the people without circumcision and the obligation to observe the Law.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集21 - Gospel of John—Context of Conflict
2024年4月17日30 分鐘Asking about the relationship between the Synoptics and the very different Gospel of John leads to the consideration of John's style, structure, and symbolism, and the discovery of something far more complex than the simple and straightforward account of an eyewitness.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集22 - Gospel of John—Jesus as the Man from Heaven
2024年4月17日30 分鐘John's powerful portrait of Jesus combines a constant insistence on his full humanity, while also portraying him as the revelation of God.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集23 - Gospel of John—Jesus as Obedient Son
2024年4月17日31 分鐘John's Gospel has sometimes been considered the most anti-Semitic New Testament composition. This lecture considers the complex ways it engages the world of Judaism.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集24 - Gospel of John—Witness to the Truth
2024年4月17日31 分鐘In John's Gospel, the most extensive teaching of his followers takes place after the close of Jesus' public ministry. John portrays Jesus' death and resurrection in terms of the "hour" of his "being lifted up" and "glorified."免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買第 季第 1 集25 - In and Out—Canonical and Apocryphal Gospels
2024年4月17日31 分鐘This lecture sketches the historical process of canonization in early Christianity, touches on some of the implications of the distinction between canonical and apocryphal, and provides an overview of the apocryphal Gospels.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買