Mobile Ed: NT311 The World of Jesus and the Gospels (3 hour course - audio)

by Craig A. Evans

Publisher:

Lexham Press

, 2015

Overview

Gain clarity in your reading of the Gospels with a study of the intertestamental period. The decline of the Persian Empire, the rise of Alexander the Great, Israel’s military engagements and religious movements—the events between the final book of the Old Testament and the first Gospel are a backdrop for Christ’s appearance and the development of Christianity. Intertestamental history clarifies the context of the New Testament for a deeper, more robust understanding of Scripture.

Course Outline

Introduction

• Introducing the Speaker and the Course

Unit 1: Intertestamental Socio-Religious World

• Timeline
• Succession of Imperial Powers
• Using the Timeline to Trace the History of the Intertestamental Period
• Antiochus Epiphanes
• Accessing and Utilizing the Perseus Classics Collection in Logos
• Hasmoneans
• Using the Topic Section in Search Results to Research Antiochus IV
• Roman Intervention
• Creating a Custom Series and Layout to Study the Bible with Apocrypha
• History of Rome
• Herod the Great
• Using the Favorites Tool to Store and Organize Research
• Roman Prefects and Procurators
• Using the Bible Facts Tool to Distinguish between the Herods
• Jewish Agitators: “Messiahs”
• Jewish Agitators: “Prophets”
• Searching the Writings of Josephus for Mentions of Christ
• Time of Jesus: Religious and Cultural Background
• Time of Jesus: Social and Economic Background
• Temple
• Finding and Exporting Images with the Bible Facts Tool
• Synagogues

Unit 2: Intertestamental Ideas

• Interpreting Scripture
• Using a Proximity Search to Find Images of the Synagogue at Capernaum
• Intertestamental Literature
• Extracanonical Insights: Parable of the Vineyard
• Creating a Layout to Study the Targums
• Extracanonical Insights: John the Baptist’s Messianic Doubts
• Extracanonical Insights: John’s Prologue
• Intertestamental Development of Old Testament Ideas
• Graeco-Roman Philosophies
• Summary and Conclusions

Product Details

• Title: NT311 The World of Jesus and the Gospels (audio)
• Instructor: Craig A. Evans
• Publisher: Lexham Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
• Resource Type: audio
• Length: 3 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.