Word: testaments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other three additions--Hum 120, Masterpieces of Oriental Art, Hum 100a and 100b, Introduction to the Old Testament,--are not new courses, but will be part of the Humanities program for the first time next year...
...Paul has always been thought to be one man who did not put off writing letters; 14 of the New Testament's 21 Epistles are attributed to him. Now a canny Scots minister from the town of Culross claims to have scientific evidence that Paul wrote only four of the letters that bear his name-Romans, I and II Corinthians, and Galatians...
...Andrew Morton, who will publish his findings next month in a volume of New Testament studies, got his evidence from an electronic computer operated by the University of London. Until now, Morton argues, scholars could only question Paul's authorship on the basis of their personal, subjective analysis of the literary style of the Epistles, and "evidence" that convinced one scholar often left another unimpressed. Investigator Morton decided to use statistics instead of intuition...
...master. The reduced status of the servant combined with the mealymouthed piety of the 19th century to produce a quantity of parables and poems designed to convince the lower classes that drudgery was part of the divine order and should be performed with diligence and thanks. A New Testament text, very popular for framing and hanging in the servants' quarters, was Ephesians 6: 5-6.* Such sentiments persisted into the 20th century, even in the more egalitarian U.S.; as late as 1927, Turner reports, John D. Rockefeller Sr. declared his admiration for a poem that began...
Rambling Sermon. Compared with the chronological accounts of Jesus' life in Mark or Luke, The Gospel of Philip is not a Gospel at all, and deserves no place in the New Testament canon. In form it is a rambling, epigrammatic sermon or epistle on certain Christian teachings, interpreted from a Gnostic viewpoint. Composed about the middle of the 2nd century, the Gospel could not have been written by Philip the Apostle, who is recorded in John as one of the first disciples gathered by Jesus and as an onlooker at the miracle of the loaves and fishes. In stead...