Goals:
Gaining a solid knowledge of
•
The
Socio-Historical
Setting
•
The
Â
Literary Genres
that makes these books
authoritative
•
And the
Religious
teaching
•
For a specific
Christian
community
in the 1rst (or
2
nd
) century C.E.
•
G. Theissen,
Introduction
•
How, for
Theissen
each
book expresses:
•
The consensus in the
community
•
Orientation of
environment
•
Definition of Identity
•
Internal tensions
•
Structures of authority
•