pt. 1: lecture 1. The early Christians and their literature --
lecture 2. The Greco-Roman context --
lecture 3. Ancient Judaism --
lecture 4. The earliest traditions about Jesus --
lecture 5. Mark: Jesus, the suffering Son of God --
lecture 6. Matthew: Jesus, the Jewish messiah --
lecture 7. Luke: Jesus, the savior of the world --
lecture 8. John: Jesus the man from Heaven --
lecture 9. Noncanonical gospels --
lecture 10. The historical Jesus, sources and problems --
lecture 11. The historical Jesus, solutions and methods --
lecture 12. Jesus, the apocalyptic prophet --
pt. 2: lecture 13. The Acts of the Apostles --
lecture 14. Paul, the man, the mission and the modus operandi --
lecture 15. Paul and the crises of his churches: First Corinthians --
lecture 16. Pauline ethics --
lecture 17. Paul's Letter to the Romans --
lecture 18. Paul, Jesus and James --
lecture 19. The Deutero-Pauline Epistles --
lecture 20. The Pastoral Epistles --
lecture 21. The Book of Hebrews and the rise of Christian anti-semitism --
lecture 22. First Peter and the persecution of the early Christians --
lecture 23. The Book of Revelation --
lecture 24. Do we have the original New Testament?
