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Choose one of the free lessons below to get a taste of what biblical scholarship looks like in action. Each one is pulled from Hugo’s full-length New Testament course and gives you tools and surprising insights to deepen your faith.
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Studying the Gospels: Mark as a Work of Literature
The Gospels are historical sources. But they are also, crucially, literary sources as well, each crafted with distinctive themes, motifs, and plot elements. How can contemporary literary methods illuminate our study of the New Testament? And what hidden and deeper layers will we find beneath each of these texts? In this lesson, we will capture Mark's literary genius.
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Reading Other People’s Mail: The Challenges of Paul’s Letters
Most of the texts in the New Testament aren’t narratives. They are (more or less) letters—private letters, open letters, long letters, short letters. But reading letters imposes a different set of challenges than reading narratives such as the Gospels. How do scholars grapple with this very different genre of literary works? How can we make sense of works that were not originally addressed to us? Is there a way to recover their lost contexts?
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The Religion of Jesus: Understanding First-Century Judaism
Jesus was Jewish. His family was Jewish. His followers were Jewish. To understand Jesus, then, we need to understand the shape of Judaism in the first century CE. How were Jews different from other ethnic groups in the Roman Empire? What beliefs and practices characterized their ancient religion? And how does Jesus fit into this picture?