Mobile Ed: NT306 The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament (5 hour course - audio)

by Craig A. Evans

Publisher:

Lexham Press

, 2015

Overview

Dr. Craig Evans combines his extensive knowledge of ancient manuscripts and New Testament studies to survey the contents, context, and influence of the Dead Sea Scrolls. He details the history of the scrolls and the Essenes, and shows how the scrolls affect our understanding of Jesus, John the Baptist, and the early church.

Course Outline

Unit 1: Introduction and Overview

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course
• Overview of the Course
• Creating a Layout for the Biblical Dead Sea Scrolls
• The First Discovery
• Important Genizah Finds
• The Second Find
• Scripture Scrolls
• Pesharim: Commentary Scrolls
• Militant Messianic Pesharim
• Adding the Sectarian Dead Sea Scrolls to the Dead Sea Scrolls Layout
• Sectarian Scrolls
• The Essenes and the Origins of the Scrolls
• Building and Searching a Collection of Dead Sea Scrolls Resources
• What the Ruins Tell Us

Unit 2: Dead Sea Scrolls: Gospels

• John the Baptist: Part 1
• John the Baptist: Part 2
• Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls
• Jesus’ Proclamation of Jubilee
• Jesus’ Exorcism and Healing
• Exorcism and the Psalms
• Strings of Beatitudes
• Jesus’ Assurance for John the Baptist
• Jesus on Divorce and Monogamy
• Qumran on Divorce and Monogamy
• Researching the Essenes’ Belief about Divorce
• The Temple Tax
• The Eschatological Banquet
• God’s Vineyard
• The Law and Life
• Conclusions: Value of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Unit 3: Dead Sea Scrolls: Epistles and Revelation

• Paul and Qumran: Ecclesiastical Terminology
• Paul and Qumran: “Works of the Law”
• James versus Priestly Zeal for the Law
• Qumran and “Works of the Law”
• The Sons of Light
• Mystery and Revelations
• The Flesh and Spirit
• Covered Heads and Angels
• Order in the Assembly
• James and Doing the Law/Word
• Hebrews on Melchizedek
• Qumran on Melchizedek
• Spiritual Sacrifice
• Qumran and John: Dualism
• Qumran and John: Conceptual Parallels
• Revelation on New Jerusalem
• Qumran on New Jerusalem
• New Jerusalem: Summary
• Use of the Scrolls for New Testament Interpretation
• Postscript: Possible Early Discoveries

Product Details

• Title: NT306 The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament (audio)
• Instructor: Craig A. Evans
• Publisher: Lexham Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
• Resource Type: audio
• Length: 5 hours

About Craig A. Evans

Craig A. Evans (Ph.D.) is an esteemed, internationally recognized biblical scholar, author, and a regular guest on TV documentaries. He is John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins at Houston Theological Seminary. He was formally Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Acadia Divinity College. Before working at Acadia, Evans taught at Trinity Western University in British Columbia for twenty-one years, where he directed the graduate program in biblical studies and founded the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute. Evans has lectured at Cambridge, Oxford, Durham, and Yale. He also regularly lectures and gives talks at popular conferences and retreats on the historical Jesus, archaeology, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Bible.

He is the author or editor of more than fifty books and hundreds of articles and reviews. Evans is well-known for his work on the Gospels, the Historical Jesus, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the archaeology of the New Testament. His passion for archaeology has him frequently participating in Middle East digs and leading Holy Land tours. He has appeared in television and radio interviews, such as the History Channel, BBC, and Dateline NBC. Evans served as a consultant on the National Geographic Society's Gospel of Judas project and for The Bible television miniseries, and is featured in documentaries like Fragments of Truth and the Archaeology and Jesus series. He's written hundreds of articles and reviews and published more than 70 books, including Jesus and His Contemporaries, Ancient Texts for New Testament Studies, Mark in the Word Biblical Commentary, Fabricating Jesus: How Modern Scholars Distort the Gospels, God Speaks, and Jesus and the Remains of His Days: Studies in Jesus and Archaeology. He coauthored Jesus, the Final Days with N. T. Wright.