Enter the fascinating world which produced the New Testament.

The world in which the New Testament originated provides the clues to understanding the writing, development and publication of the New Testament. The course will look who could have read (and written) the documents that became the New Testament, and how letters, like Paul's, were composed. We will also look at clues about what the first century 'postal' service might have been like. We will also examine the process of how 'books' were copied and how this came to shape the modern New Testament that we have today. We will also see the long-lasting and fundamental legacy of the first Christians to book production (even in the age of the computer) 

Other areas which can  be considered are: What does Mark mean by Gospel? How did the first Christians use the New Testament?

This course can be extended from an evening course - 2.5 hours - to a full day (morning and afternoon or afternoon and evening) with workshops.