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Duration: 48:54
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Introduction to New Testament (RLST 152) The Christian faith is based upon a canon of texts considered to be holy scripture. How did this canoncome to be? Different factors, such as competing schools of doctrine, growing consensus, and the invention of the codex, helped shape the canon of the New Testament. Reasons for inclusion in or exclusion from the canon included apostolic authority, general acceptance, and theological appropriateness for 'proto-orthodox' Christianity.
00:00 - Chapter 1. Canon vs. Scripture
16:17 - Chapter 2. The Forming of Canons
27:04 - Chapter 3. The Invention of the Codex
32:50 - Chapter 4. A Slowly Developing (and Incomplete) Consensus
42:02 - Chapter 5. The Reasons for Canonical Inclusion and Exclusion
Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses
This course was recorded in Spring 2009.
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Who is Christine Hayes? (MEMBER OF Yale University)Christine Hayes is the Robert F and Patricia Ross Weis Professor of Religious Studies at Yale University. She is former Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, and one of the foremost American academics focusing on talmudic-midrashic studies and Classical Judaica. Hayes received her B.A. summa cum laude in The Study of Religion from Harvard University in 1984. She subsequently received an M.A. with distinction from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988 which included a year of graduate work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She received her PhD. in Talmudic and Judaic Studies (Department of Near Eastern Studies) from the University of California, Berkeley in 1993.
What is New Testament?The New Testament is the second part of the Christian biblical canon. The first part being the Old Testament, based on the Hebrew Bible. The New Testament discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Christianity. Christians regard both the Old and New Testaments together as sacred scripture. The New Testament (in whole or in part) has frequently accompanied the spread of Christianity around the world. It reflects and serves as a source for Christian theology and morality.
What is Bible Canon?A biblical canon or canon of scripture is a set of texts (or books) which a particular religious community regards as authoritative scripture. Most of the canons are considered by adherents 'closed' (i.e. books cannot be added or removed), reflecting a belief that public revelation has ended and thus some person or persons can gather approved inspired texts into a complete and authoritative canon. These canons have developed through debate and agreement on the part of the religious authorities of their respective faiths and denominations. Believers consider canonical books as inspired by God or as expressive of the authoritative history of the relationship between God and his people.
Who is Dale Martin? (MEMBER OF Yale University)Dale Martin (born 1954) is an American New Testament scholar. He is Woolsey Professor of Religious Studies at Yale University. He has degrees from Abilene Christian University, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Yale. Martin previously taught at Rhodes College and Duke University. Martin was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.
