The Great Courses: Jesus And The Gospels 6-Disc Set

The Great Courses: Jesus And The Gospels 6-Disc DVD VIDEO EDUCATIONAL religion 

Movie 

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The Great Courses (The Teaching Company) 

2004 

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$13.99
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THE GREAT COURSES: JESUS AND THE GOSPELS 6-DISC SET

Professor Luke Timothy Johnson, Emory University
The Great Courses

This 36-lecture course (approximately 30 minutes per lecture) examines the four canonical gospels and related early Christian writings. Professor Luke Timothy Johnson guides listeners through the historical context, composition, and theological themes of the Gospels, as well as apocryphal and Gnostic texts that illuminate early Christian understandings of Jesus.

Course details: 36 lectures, ~30 minutes each.

Lecture breakdown by disc:

Disc 1

1. Why Not "The Historical Jesus"?

2. The Starting Point

3. The Resurrection Experience

4. The Matrix—Symbolic World of Greek and Jew

5. Parallels—Stories of Greek and Jewish Heroes

6. The Context—Jesus in the Memory of the Church / Earliest Stages—Paul and the Oral Tradition

Disc 2

7. Why Compose Gospels?

8. The Synoptic Problem and Its Solutions

9. Gospel of Mark—Apocalyptic and Irony

10. Gospel of Mark—Good News in Mystery

11. Gospel of Mark—Teacher and Disciples

12. Gospel of Mark—Passion and Death

Disc 3

13. Gospel of Matthew—Synagogue Down the Street

14. Gospel of Matthew—The Messiah of Israel

15. Gospel of Matthew—Jesus and Torah

16. Gospel of Matthew—Teacher and Lord

17. Luke-Acts—The Prophetic Gospel

18. Gospel of Luke—God's Prophet

Disc 4

19. Gospel of Luke—The Prophet and the People

20. Acts of the Apostles—The Prophet's Movement

21. Gospel of John—Context of Conflict

22. Gospel of John—Jesus as the Man from Heaven

23. Gospel of John—Jesus as Obedient Son

24. Gospel of John—Witness to the Truth

Disc 5

25. In and Out—Canonical and Apocryphal Gospels

26. Young Jesus—The Infancy Gospel of James

27. Young Jesus—The Infancy Gospel of Thomas

28. Jewish Christian Narrative Gospels

29. Fragments of Narrative Gospels—Gospel of Peter

30. New Revelations—Gnostic Witnesses

Disc 6

31. Jesus in Word—The Coptic Gospel of Thomas

32. Jesus in Word—Two Gnostic Gospels

33. The Gnostic Good News—The Gospel of Truth

34. The Gnostic Good News—The Gospel of Philip

35. Jesus in and Through the Gospels

36. Learning Jesus in Past and Present

About the lecturer: Professor Luke Timothy Johnson is Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Emory University Candler School of Theology. A former Benedictine monk and former teacher at Yale Divinity School, he is the author of acclaimed books, including The Real Jesus: The Misguided Quest for the Historical Jesus. Professor Johnson has received the On Eagle's Wings Excellence in Teaching Award twice.

Product notes: Published by The Great Courses / The Teaching Company. Course No. 6240. DVD set with barcode ISBN 9781565859432.

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