The Sources that Gave Rise to the New Testament
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The purpose of this research work, which has been turned into a book and is entitled: The Sources that Gave Rise to the New Testament, is the study of the literary sources that served to build the framework of theological thought that we find embodied in the pages of the NT in concepts such as that of a Messiah, the final judgment, hell, etc.
Namely, the abundant Jewish literature that emerged during the so-called "Intertestamental Period," such as Apocalyptic literature, which laid the foundations for much of Christian theology. And the books considered deuterocanonical, or called apocryphal by Protestant tradition, but which were valued and taken into account by the writers of the New Testament, and therefore constitute an important source.
Also, the Jewish oral tradition collected by the rabbis in the Talmud; or the writings produced and jealously guarded by the Essene sect in the Qumran caves near the Dead Sea, the object of a chance discovery in 1947, books not included in the Tanakh canon, commentaries, calendars, prayers and community rules, and which are key to understanding the environment in which the NT was written
And finally, the apocryphal literature of the New Testament, not as a source of the canonical books, but as proof of the existence of common ancient sources, both to the canonical evangelists and to the apocryphal ones, and which served as a pattern in the selection of the biblical canon.
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