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After the New Testament [videorecording] : the writings of the Apostolic fathers / Bart D. Ehrman.

Chantilly, Va : Teaching Co., c2005.

Christian literature, Early.

Great courses (DVD)

4 videodiscs (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks.

In two containers.

"Course no. 6537."

Accompanying guides include biographical information, lecture notes and outlines, timelines, glossaries, and bibliographical references.

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-66).

Disc 1. lecture 1. Introduction to the the Apostolic fathers -- lecture 2. The letter of 1 Clement -- lecture 3. Church structures in early Christianity -- lecture 4. The letters of Ignatius -- lecture 5. Doctrinal problems in the early Church -- lecture 6. Still other doctrinal disputes -- disc 2. lecture 7. The letter of Polycarp to the Philippians -- lecture 8. The use of authorities in the early Church -- lecture 9. The first martyrology : Polycarp -- lecture 10. The persecution of the Christians -- lecture 11. A church manual : the Didache of the Apostles -- lecture 12. Ritual in the early church.

Performer Note:

Lecturer, Bart D. Ehrman, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Twelve lectures (30 min. ea.)

These lectures explore a collection of writings produced by the Apostolic Fathers living in the decades after the books of the New Testament were produced. Their writings give important insights into how Christianity was developing in its earliest stages, as it moved away from its inauspicious beginnings toward becoming a major world religion. Disc 3. lecture 13. Barnabas and the opposition to the Jews -- lecture 14. The rise of Christian anti-Semitism -- lecture 15. 2 Clement : an early sermon -- lecture 16. The use of Scripture in the early Church. lecture 17. Papias : an early Christian interpreter -- lecture 18. Oral tradition in early Christianity -- disc 4. lecture 19. The shepherd of Hermas : an apocalypse -- lecture 20. Apocalypses in early Christianity -- lecture 21. The letter to Diognetus : an apology -- lecture 22. Apologetics in early Christianity -- lecture 23. The Apostolic fathers as a collection -- lecture 24. The Apostolic fathers and proto-orthodoxy.

Ehrman, Bart D.

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