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Full List of Readings:

Lecture 1 The Paradox of the New Testament
Brakke, David. “A New Fragment of Athanasius’s 39th Festal Letter: Heresy, Apocrypha, and the Canon.” Harvard Theological Review 103 (2010): 47–66
---, “Canon Formation and Social Conflict in Fourth-Century Egypt: Athanasius of Alexandria’s Thirty-Ninth Festal Letter.” Harvard Theological Review 87 (1994): 395–419
Ehrman, The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings

Lecture 2 The Jewish Origins of Christian Faith
Cohen, From the Maccabees to the Mishnah
Fredriksen, When Christians Were Jews

Lecture 3 1 Thessalonians and Paul’s Ministry
Harrill, Paul the Apostle
Stowers, Letter Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Lecture 4 The Salvation of Gentiles in Galatians
Fredriksen, Paul
Gager, Reinventing Paul

Lecture 5 Romans on God, Faith, and Israel
Bassler, Navigating Paul
Meeks and Fitzgerald, The Writings of St. Paul

Lecture 6 Community Conflicts in 1–2 Corinthians
Meeks, The First Urban Christians
Murphy-O’Connor, St. Paul’s Corinth

Lecture 7 Worship and Leaders in Paul’s Congregations
Kraemer and D’Angelo, Women & Christian Origins, chaps. 9 and 10
McGowan, Ancient Christian Worship
Meeks, The First Urban Christians
Murphy-O’Connor, St. Paul’s Corinth

Lecture 8 Paul’s Theology on Slavery and Christ
Harrill, “Paul and Slavery.” In Paul in the Greco-Roman World: A Handbook, edited by J. Paul Sampley, chap. 26
Juel, Messianic Exegesis

Lecture 9 Adapting Paul’s Teachings to New Situations
Ehrman, Forged
Pervo, The Making of Paul

Lecture 10 Jesus as the Suffering Son of Man in Mark
Nickle, The Synoptic Gospels, chap. 3
Rhoads and Dewey, Mark as Story
Wrede, The Messianic Secret

Lecture 11 Jesus as the New Moses in Matthew
Nickle, The Synoptic Gospels, chap. 4
Stein, Studying the Synoptic Gospels

Lecture 12 The Church in the Gospel of Matthew
Riches, Matthew
Saldarini, Matthew’s Christian-Jewish Community

Lecture 13 Luke and Acts on God’s History of Salvation
Fitzmyer, Luke the Theologian
Nickle, The Synoptic Gospels, chap. 5
Powell, What Are They Saying about Acts?
---, What Are They Saying about Luke?

Lecture 14 Luke’s Inclusive Message
Fitzmyer, Luke the Theologian
Kreamer and D’Angelo, Women & Christian Origins, chap. 8
Powell, What Are They Saying about Acts?
---, What Are They Saying about Luke?

Lecture 15 The Apostles and Church in Luke and Acts
Fitzmyer, Luke the Theologian
Nickle, The Synoptic Gospels, chap. 5
Powell, What Are They Saying about Acts?
---, What Are They Saying about Luke?

Lecture 16 Jesus as the Divine Word in John
Anderson, The Riddles of the Fourth Gospel
Brown, The Community of the Beloved Disciple

Lecture 17 Jesus and the Jews in the Gospel of John
Martyn, History and Theology in the Fourth Gospel
Reinhartz, Befriending the Beloved Disciple

Lecture 18 The Community of John after the Gospel
Brown, The Community of the Beloved Disciple
Lieu, The Theology of the Johannine Epistles
Malherbe, Social Aspects of Early Christianity

Lecture 19 In Search of the Historical Jesus
Allison, Jesus of Nazareth
Crossan, Jesus
Ehrman, Jesus.

Lecture 20 Interpreting Abraham in Hebrews and James
Batten, What Are They Saying about the Letter of James?
Harrington, What Are They Saying about the Letter to the Hebrews?
Siker, Disinheriting the Jews

Lecture 21 Churches in Crisis in 1–2 Peter and Jude
Ehrman, Forged
Elliott, A Home for the Homeless
Senior and Harrington, 1 Peter, Jude and 2 Peter

Lecture 22 New Leaders in the Pastoral Epistles
Ehrman, Forged
Pervo, The Making of Paul
Torjesen, When Women Were Priests

Lecture 23 Revelation: Envisioning God’s Reality
Collins, Crisis and Catharsis
Pagels, Revelations
Schüssler Fiorenza, The Book of Revelation

Lecture 24 The Quest for Unity in the New Testament
Brakke, “Scriptural Practices in Early Christianity: Towards a New History of the New Testament Canon.” In Invention, Rewriting, Usurpation: Discursive Fights over Religious Traditions in Antiquity, edited by David Brakke, Anders-Christian Jacobsen, and Jörg Ulrich, 263–280
Gamble, The New Testament Canon
Kugel and Greer, Early Biblical Interpretation
Stendahl, Meanings