The Letters of Paul - Week 3 - "How Did We Get Paul’s Letters? The Canon Parts I & II"

5/14/2020

Each week of May we are posting Dr. Laura Nasrallah's lectures from Yale Divinity School and on Wednesday evenings joining Mo. Rebeccah in a Zoom meeting to discuss them. The whole class schedule is posted on the Adult Education page HERE.

The third week's topic is "How did we get Paul's Letters? The Canon Parts I & II" and the lectures are found HERE.

After watching the lectures, feel free to return here and type your comments or reply to others'.

Our live discussion on Zoom will be Wednesday, May 13, 6:30-7:15 pm. Access the meeting HERE.

2 Comments

John F. Kosky link

5/20/2020 01:44:37 pm

The cultures of East and West. East being the ancient. Bablonia, Assyria, Gilgamish, and kingdoms of ORAL tradition many millennium past that started it all. Hebrews, roots in the past but presented the West ( Greek and Roman) with a bases to use cognitive conduct to formulate the answers to THE question. WHY? Why are we and God? Paul is that intellectual bridge. A VIN diagram helps to illustrate the pros and cons.
The implementation of Artificial Intelligence by G5 in the very near future will render the current form of Cognitive Conduct obsolete , politically incorrect, and subject to reinterpretation. The issue will not be, did Paul mean this or that ? But a redefinition of All The Above. Interesting times we live in.

Rebecca Dinovo

5/20/2020 03:29:56 pm

Yes, I like the idea that Paul served as an intellectual bridge for the cultural gap of the time on these big, theological questions. He could speak from that Greek-educated position while being a Hebrew - no wonder he was called by God. I'm sure others understood this, and that is why his letters were so important from the earliest days.

The Letters of Paul - Week 3 - "How Did We Get Paul’s Letters? The Canon Parts I & II"

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