Table showing Fant, Musser, Reddish NT topic-titles side by side with Ehrman's NT Guidebook lecture-titles.
Lecture Titles in Bart Ehrman’s The New
Testament Course Guidebook
LECTURE 10. The Historical Jesus—Sources and
Problems
LECTURE 11. The Historical Jesus—Solutions and
Methods
LECTURE 12. Jesus the Apocalyptic Prophet
LECTURE 1. The Early Christians and Their Literature
LECTURE 3. Ancient Judaism
LECTURE 4. The Earliest Traditions About Jesus
LECTURE 5. Mark—Jesus the Suffering Son of God
LECTURE 6.
LECTURE 7.
LECTURE 8.
LECTURE 9.
Matthew—Jesus the Jewish Messiah
Luke—Jesus the Savior of the World
John—Jesus the Man from Heaven
Noncanonical Gospels
LECTURE 13. The Acts of the Apostles
These are chapters and sections/subsections in An
Introduction to the Bible by Fant, et al. for the
New Testament topics, Chapter 16ff.
(Origins and Early Development of the Christian
Tradition)
Chapter 16--The Life and Teachings of Jesus
Sources of Information
Obstacles to Achieving a Biography of Jesus
Core Elements of a Life Sketch of Jesus
(The Development of the Gospels: From Oral Traditions
to Mark)
From Oral Traditions to Written Gospels:
Early Oral Traditions
The Need for Written Records
What Is a Gospel?
The Production of the Gospels
The Significance of Four Gospels
The Gospel of Mark:
Historical Context
Literary Structure and Contents
Characteristics and Themes
Mark and the Divine-Human Encounter
(The Further Development of the Gospels: Matthew,
Luke, and John)
The Gospel of Matthew
The Gospel of Luke
The Gospel of John
Beyond the Four Gospels
(The Development of the Early Church: The Acts of the
Apostles)
“Beginning in Jerusalem” (Acts 1–6)
The Climax of Salvation History: The Resurrection Faith.
The Early Church United: Pentecost and Common Life.
The Early Church Challenged: External Conflict, Internal
Discord
“In Samaria and Judea” (Acts 7–8)
The Death of Stephen and the Scattering of the Church.
The Mission of Philip.
“To the Ends of the Earth” (Acts 9–28)
Peter and Cornelius: “No Partiality”
To Rome: Paul
The Kerygma of the Emerging Church and the DivineHuman Encounter
Lecture Titles in Bart Ehrman’s The New
Testament Course Guidebook
LECTURE 2. The Greco-Roman Context
LECTURE 14. Paul—The Man, the Mission, and the
Modus Operandi
LECTURE 15. Paul and the Crises of His Churches—First
Corinthians
LECTURE 17. Paul’s Letter to the Romans
LECTURE 18. Paul, Jesus, and James
LECTURE 19. The Deutero-Pauline Epistles
LECTURE 20. The Pastoral Epistles. The Book of
Hebrews and the Rise of Christian Anti-Semitism
LECTURE 22. First Peter and the Persecution of the Early
Christians
LECTURE 23. The Book of Revelation
LECTURE 24. Do We Have the Original New Testament?
These are chapters and sections/subsections in An
Introduction to the Bible by Fant, et al. for the
New Testament topics, Chapter 16ff.
(Paul and His Cultural Environment)
The Greco-Roman World:
Religion in the Greco-Roman World
Religious Philosophies
Paul and the Greco-Roman World
Sources for the Life and Teaching of Paul
The Life of Paul
(Paul and His Writings)
Paul as a Letter Writer: The Structure of Paul's Letters.
The Contents of Paul's Letters:
Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, 1
Thessalonians, Philemon.
The Divine-Human Encounter in Paul
(The Developing Institutional Church)
The Church Distinguishes Right Belief from False
Teachings (James; 1, 2, 3 John; Jude; 2 Peter; Colossians;
2 Thessalonians)
The Church Establishes Its Structure (1 and 2 Timothy,
Titus, Ephesians)
The Church Encourages Fidelity in Difficult Times
(Hebrews, 1 Peter)
The Divine-Human Encounter: Keeping the Faith in Later
Generations
(The Church in Conflict)
A Response to Persecution: The Book of Revelation