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The Gospels
First four books of the NT
Written to elucidate certain aspects of teaching and ministry-not
biographies
Written over time-earliest Gospel written 70 years after the death
of Christ

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Matthew
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Written for Jews to show how Jesus
fulfills Hebrew Law and revelations of
OT prophets

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Luke
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Christian audience
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Stresses mercy and forgiveness
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Salvation to poor and lowly
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Women exist in this Gospel

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Gospels conflict about details
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John: were Jesus’ legs broken on the
cross or not

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Acts of the Apostles (Luke)
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Letters of Paul
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Letters attributed to apostles James,
Peter, John and Jude
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Revelations: mystical experience of
John that is the end of the world

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Additional texts
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Gnostic Gospels
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Dead Sea Scrolls
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Tacitus
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Josephus
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Christian leaders St. Irenaeus
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Apologists Tertullian and Origen
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Not much information on Christianity
prior to 312

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Spread of Christianity