: The literary record of the church’s growth and the development of its formal organization through writings like the Didache and later epistles.
While the first volume explores the cultural background, this second volume focuses on the . It traces how oral traditions—such as the message of Jesus and the "Synoptic Sayings Gospel" (Q source)—developed into the formal written Gospels and letters that eventually formed the Christian canon. Key Narrative Threads Introduction to the New Testament, Vol. 2: Hist...
: The evolution of oral stories into written sources, including the Sayings Gospel and collections of parables. : The literary record of the church’s growth
