Yale Courses - This course approaches the New Testament not as scripture, or a piece of authoritative holy writing, but as a collection of historical documents. Therefore, students are urged to leave ...

Among New Testament introductions Robert M. Grant’s Historical Introduction to the New Testament (Harper & Row) is outstanding. It falls into three parts, of which the second is devoted to special ...

Historical science came into its maturity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This does not mean that all the problems of a scientific historiography were settled, but at least the historians ...