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<blockquote data-quote="Speedwell" data-source="post: 69664363" data-attributes="member: 387171"><p>The earliest Christian documents in circulation (besides Paul's letters) were what were called <em>Testimonies</em>, lists of OT prophesies supposedly fulfilled by Jesus. Such lists were in existence already, as it was an age of messianic expectation, and it was easy for early Christians to adapt them to their messianic claims for Jesus. These Testimonies (some of which have survived) were used for preaching and instruction at time close to the events they described in a society that was intimately familiar with the Hebrew scriptures. It was not until Christianity began to spread to the Gentiles and living memory began to fade that connected narratives of the life of Jesus became necessary. Of course, the lists were not identical and the events not ordered in the same way. When the Gospels were written based on the various Testimonies Mark used Peter's, whoever wrote the Gospel of Matthew used Matthew's and Luke (who was an educated Greek and thus taught not to let facts stand too much in the way of a good story when writing history) used whatever he could get his hands on--thus giving rise to what is called the "synoptic problem". John, of course, had an entirely different literary agenda, but all four were probably written between the year 70 and the end of the century.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Speedwell, post: 69664363, member: 387171"] The earliest Christian documents in circulation (besides Paul's letters) were what were called [I]Testimonies[/I], lists of OT prophesies supposedly fulfilled by Jesus. Such lists were in existence already, as it was an age of messianic expectation, and it was easy for early Christians to adapt them to their messianic claims for Jesus. These Testimonies (some of which have survived) were used for preaching and instruction at time close to the events they described in a society that was intimately familiar with the Hebrew scriptures. It was not until Christianity began to spread to the Gentiles and living memory began to fade that connected narratives of the life of Jesus became necessary. Of course, the lists were not identical and the events not ordered in the same way. When the Gospels were written based on the various Testimonies Mark used Peter's, whoever wrote the Gospel of Matthew used Matthew's and Luke (who was an educated Greek and thus taught not to let facts stand too much in the way of a good story when writing history) used whatever he could get his hands on--thus giving rise to what is called the "synoptic problem". John, of course, had an entirely different literary agenda, but all four were probably written between the year 70 and the end of the century. [/QUOTE]
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