How Did the New Testament Come to Be?
How the Bible Was Formed E4 ā In the last three episodes of this short series, we focused on the formation of the Hebrew Bible, or the Old Testament. We also talked about other works of literature from the Second Temple period, known collectively as the Deuterocanon or Apocrypha. Today, weāll finally explore yet another collection of Second Temple literature that was formed around the life, death, and resurrection of Jesusāthe New Testament. In this episode, Jon and Tim look at the people in the early Jesus movement who wrote, collected, and distributed these biographies about Jesus and letters to churches across the Roman Empire.CHAPTERSThe Fulfillment of the Hebrew Scriptures (0:00-13:51)What the Gospels Are and How They Came to Be (13:51-25:42)The Crew Who Shaped the New Testament (25:42-47:19)The Letters That Lasted (47:19-52:35)Sacred Scribal Abbreviations (52:35-1:05:01)Conclusion to Series (1:05:01-1:08:15)OFFICIAL EPISODE TRANSCRIPTView this episodeās official transcript.REFERENCED RESOURCESThe DidacheJesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony by Richard BauckhamThe Formation and Significance of the Christian Biblical Canon: A Study in Text, Ritual and Interpretation by Tomas BokedalCheck out the The Deuterocanon / Apocrypha video series.You can view annotations for this episodeāplus our entire library of videos, podcasts, articles, and classesāin the BibleProject app, available for Android and iOS.Check out Timās extensive collection of recommended books here.SHOW MUSICāat the picturesā by Lofi Sunday, Cassidy GodwinĀ ālittle adventuresā by Lofi Sunday, Cassidy GodwinĀ āChurch Pew ft. Oly.Lo, WISDM-02ā by Lofi SundayĀ āYo-05ā by Lofi Sunday, Just DerrickBibleProject theme song by TENTSSHOW CREDITSProduction of todayās episode is by Lindsey Ponder, producer, and Cooper Peltz, managing producer. Tyler Bailey is our supervising engineer, who edited todayās episode and provided the sound design and mix. JB Witty does our show notes, and Hannah Woo provides the annotations for our app. Our host and creative director is Jon Collins, and our lead scholar is Tim Mackie.Ā Powered and distributed by Simplecast.