pt. 1, disc 1. Early Christians and their literature ; Greco-Roman context
disc 2. Ancient Judaism ; Earliest traditions about Jesus
disc 3. Mark, Jesus the suffering son of God ; Matthew, Jesus the Jewish messiah
disc 4. Luke, Jesus the savior of the world ; John, Jesus the man from Heaven
disc 5. Noncanonical gospels ; Historical Jesus, sources and problems
disc 6. Historical Jesus, solutions and methods ; Jesus the apocalyptic prophet.
pt. 2, disc 7. Acts of the apostles ; Paul, the man, the mission, and the modus operandi
disc 8. Paul and the crises of his churches, First Corinthians ; Pauline ethics
disc 9. Paul's letter to the Romans ; Paul, Jesus, and James
disc 10. Deutero-Pauline Epistles ; Pastoral Epistles
disc 11. Book of Hebrews and the rise of Christian anti-Semitism ; First Peter and the persecution of the early Christians
disc 12. Book of revelation ; Do we have the original New Testament?