Most historians agree that Jesus or his followers established a new Jewish sect, one that attracted both Jewish and Gentile converts. Historians continue to debate the precise moment when Christianity …

Oct 24, 2025 · Christians see in the New Testament the fulfillment of the promise of the Hebrew Bible, which they designate as the Old Testament. It relates and interprets the new covenant, represented …

This course provides a historical study of the origins of Christianity by analyzing the literature of the earliest Christian movements in historical context, concentrating on the New Testament.

The New Testament provides something much more than the demands to obey in the Old Testament. It provides a changed heart that wants God and cries out Abba, daddy!

The Bible (from biblos, Greek for 'book') is the basis of two great religions, Judaism in the Old Testament and Christianity in the New Testament. In each case it brings together a group of documents to tell …

When were the writings that make up the New Testament selected, arranged, and collected? Learn more about what biblical scholars have discovered. The New Testament we have today is a …

This volume offers valuable perspectives from biblical scholars on the background of the New Testament texts, including the Jewish and Greco-Roman cultures of the time.

Comprising 27 distinct books, this sacred scripture emerged during the first century CE and fundamentally transformed religious understanding across the ancient world. Scholars recognize the …

The New Testament canon developed gradually over the first few centuries of Christianity through a complex process of debate, rejection of heretical texts, and recognition of writings deemed apostolic, …

Nov 3, 2025 · The historical background of the New Testament and its times must be viewed in conjunction with the Jewish matrix from which it evolved and the Hellenistic (Greek cultural) world …