New Testament Apocrypha Course Syllabus
August 24th, 2007 by 
Tony
In a few weeks I will begin teaching a course on the New Testament Apocrypha (yes, yes, I know "NTA" is not the term I should be using anymore, but prospective students understand it better than "Christian Apocrypha"). I have posted the syllabus on my parent site (HERE) and would welcome any feedback from others who have taught NTA courses in the past (or presently).
My approach this time out is a little different. Taking the methodology of Bauer's Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity as a guide, I will work through NT texts and traditions (e.g., Mark) alongside developments of those traditions in apocryphal texts (e.g., Secret Mark). I have also integrated some later texts into the course (Gospel of Barnabas, Dormition of Mary) that I have not used before. The text books are Klauck's Apocryphal Gospels: An Introduction (the most up-to-date treatment of the texts currently available) and Ehrman's Lost Scriptures (though the primary texts often are not based on current editions, the volume is the most serviceable for what I have planned). The students will also read and review Darrell Bock's The Missing Gospels (to get a sense of critics' arguments about the texts).
I'm hoping to incorporate the course lectures and class discussions into the blog. Perhaps some of the students will make their presence known too.
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August 24th, 2007 at 10:44 am
Tony,
This course sounds wonderful. I’d like to do something similar, but so far the courses I have take up so much of my schedule that I haven’t worked something like this in. The closest I do is a course called Jesus and the Gospels, and also Gnostic Gospels. I include non-canonical materials in all my courses, but I like the idea of a class devoted to their study!
October 3rd, 2007 at 7:05 pm
The course is pretty exciting. There’s a lot of wild stuff you can bring up later during pub nights, that glorious time when alcohol makes philosophers out of us all.
Cheers,
Joshua
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