This is a course that introduces you to the New Testament literature, but also the history of other material from the very first one hundred years or so of early Christianity.

本课不仅介绍,新约文学，还会介绍其他文献的历史,可以追溯到基督教早期100年左右的时期。

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Instead of looking at the documents from the outside, let's look at what would an early Christian church look like if you were just to stumble upon them? A little imagination.

这次我们不再客观地看文本，我们来看看一个早期基督教会的样子,如果你无意间进了教会，想象一下。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

What's surprising most people, when you think , you associate with something that has a Christian background, you think of people that work in hospitals.

让大多数人惊讶的是,当你说到“教士“这个词，人们会联想到，the，word，“chaplain”,有基督教背景的人，会想到在医院里工作的人。

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Progress in the eyes of the philosophers of the eighteenth century, though they would have been very angry to hear me say this, was something like the equivalent of the Christian hope for immortality.

进步在十八世纪的哲学家眼中,尽管他们也许会对我的说法很不满,与基督教对永生的信仰类似

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So generally,the canon of the New Testament, our twenty-seven books,is accepted by all Christian churches,generally.

通常来说，新约里的书目，即那27本书,所有基督教会都会接受。

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Then it has several letters,seven different letters,very short letters,addressed to seven different Christian churches.

然后是七封不同的书信，篇幅不长,写给七个不同的基督教会。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

And then the second half of the class, we turn our attentions to more of these issues of disagreement and debate within early Christianity, around issues such as Judaism and the Law,women's positions, politics,and the interpretation of scripture.

本课的第二部分，我们会把注意力转向早期基督教内的,分歧与争论，比如犹太教与摩西五经，妇女地位，政治，圣典解读。

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