#135 [EN] Dale Martin - A historical look at the New Testament and early Christianity

Dale B. Martin is a New Testament scholar and historian of Christianity, currently Woolsey Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Yale University. Professor Martin specializes in New Testament and Christian Origins, including attention to social and cultural history of the Greco-Roman world. 

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Index:

(0:00) Introduction in Portuguese

(5:57) [Beginning of the conversation] How an historian studies the Bible and early Christianity (Historical criticism). | Gospel of Thomas. | Q source

(21:36) How separate true from fiction in the gospels? Criteria: multiple attestation, dissimilarity (see also this book)

Jesus saying in all four gospels that “a prophet has no honor in his own country” [e.g. Mark 3:33-35: «Who are my mother and my brothers?” he asked. Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.» 

How Christianity changed Jesus from being the «Son of Man» (Mark) to becoming «God the Son, the second Person in the Trinity | Council of Nicea | 

A puzzling passage in the Bible - Mark 14:51: “A young man, wearing nothing but a linen garment, was following Jesus. When they seized him, he fled naked, leaving his garment behind.»

(32:14) The historical Jesus. Was Jesus literate? Archeological findings in Nazareth. Miracles and the resurrection. | Science vs myth | Similarities between Asclepius and Christ.

(49:24) What did really Jesus believe in? How Jesus was influenced by the Book of Isaiah. And Jeremiah. | 

The puzzle of Jesus’s speech in the Sermon on the Mount in Mathew 5

(1:05:25) The message of Paul the Apostle (St Paul). | The role of James (Jesus's brother). | The role of Mary.

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