Introduction to the New Testament

Harvard HDS

This course will provide a basic historical introduction to critical issues in the study of the New Testament. What are the contents of these texts that make up the second portion of the Christian Bible? In what ways do they reflect the major issues, concerns, and struggles that were taking place among the earliest Christ-followers? How did they get to be grouped together in a single book called the "New Testament"? In addition to these historical questions, we will also attend to the…