{"id":1749,"date":"2010-01-11T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/01\/introduction-to-new-testament-history-and-literature\/"},"modified":"2010-01-11T13:47:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T13:47:00","slug":"introduction-to-new-testament-history-and-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/01\/introduction-to-new-testament-history-and-literature.html","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to New Testament History and Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/nearemmaus.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/11\/ekaputra-tupamahu-is-blogging-again-2\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Brian LePort<\/a> points out that Ekaputra Tupamahu is blogging again, and his most recent post provides <a href=\"http:\/\/tupamahu.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/dale-martins-lectures-on-introduction.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">links to all Dale Martin\u2019s lectures on Introduction to New Testament History and Literature<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two of my three classes met for the first time today. My religion and science fiction class meets in a smart classroom, and although there seem to be technical issues relating to the sound in that room (which I hope will be solved before I need to show clips in there), I was able to have a montage of clips from various movies and TV shows on the four screens around the room while we were talking today, which I think set the tone nicely for the course.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-643637220917854004?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian LePort points out that Ekaputra Tupamahu is blogging again, and his most recent post provides links to all Dale Martin\u2019s lectures on Introduction to New Testament History and Literature. Two of my three classes met for the first time today. 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