Part 1. Disc 1. Lecture 1. The early Christians and their literature ; lecture 2. The Greco-Roman context ; lecture 3. Ancient Judaism ; lecture 4. The earliest traditions about Jesus ; lecture 5. Mark : Jesus the suffering son of God ; lecture 6. Matthew : Jesus the Jewish messiah
Disc 2. Lecture 7. Luke : Jesus the savior of the world ; lecture 8. John : Jesus the man from heaven ; lecture 9. Noncanonical gospels ; lecture 10. The historical Jesus, sources and problems ; lecture 11. The historical Jesus, solutions and methods ; lecture 12. Jesus the apocalyptic prophet
Part 2. Disc 3. Lecture 13. The Acts of the apostles ; lecture 14. Paul, the man, the mission and the modus operandi ; lecture 15. Paul and the crises of his churches : First Corinthians ; lecture 16. Pauline ethics ; lecture 17. Paul's Letter to the Romans ; lecture 18. Paul, Jesus, and James
Disc 4. Lecture 19. The Deutero-Pauline Epistles ; lecture 20. The Pastoral Epistles ; lecture 21. 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?