The Four Gospels: From Oral Tradition to Written Text
Thursday, March 20, 2008 - Thursday, April 10, 2008
Location: The Center for Spiritual Development, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Portland OR
(503) 478-1218
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The written Gospels in our New Testament did not come into being until a generation or two after the lifetime of Jesus. Moreover, the preceding period of oral tradition did much to shape what we now have in the written texts. In this class we will trace the story of this transition from oral to written Gospels in order to learn what we can about the ways early Christians used and reflected on the traditions they received. We will follow the use of each Gospel into the second century when awareness of multiple gospels began to spread across the Church and the earliest outlines of a Canon began to emerge. For more information visit our website: www.center-for-spiritual-development.org.
Richard L. Rohrbaugh is the Paul S. Wright Professor of Religious Studies (Emeritus) at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, where he has taught for the past 30 years. He holds a B.A. degree in chemistry from Sterling College, KS (1958), an M. Div. from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (1961) and an S.T. D. from San Francisco Theological Seminary (1977). He is a James Purdy Scholar, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, a member of the Society of Biblical Literature, the Catholic Biblical Association, and the American Schools of Oriental Research, under whose auspices he was an area supervisor in archaeological excavations at Tel Aroer (1980) and Tel Dan (1986).
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