THE 1050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: New Christian, Pharisees

• School: St. John's University
• Department: THE - THEOLOGY
• Course: THE 1050
• Professor: Khan

Document Summary

Elders: disciple of apostles: paul was the only apostle that wrote. Epitsles: written by paul, were collected by members of church after paul"s death to have a official document, there were no eyewitnesses left of jesus" time, except for the apostle john. 3rd genereation: apostles were not part of the 3rd generation to comment about what was going on, 3d gen wrote epistles anonymously, not by the apostles, but rather in the name of the apostles along with the gospels. Paul"s letters: written by paul, written in his name addressing questions that had to be addressed that was not addressed in his time because it wasn"t a problem. Success in surviving were two jewish: pharisees (in the diaspora in synagogues, jewish-christians. Created old testament books: for jewish use, it was there, torah prophets, writings, 39 books written in english. Christians church in roman empire 3rd gen: half gentile half jewish.