New Testament Studies
The New Testament is a compilation of letters and history and one book, the last, whose literary style (genre) is called apocalyptic, meaning it's full of visions of the end of time and the catastrophes that will come with that ending. The first 4 books of the New Testament are called the "Gospels", the word "gospel" deriving from the Greek and meaning good news. They basically give us the life of Jesus from 4 different perspectives, which means that they contain shared material and also their own individual material. The first three Gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke contain much more in common with each other than with John, the last of the 4 Gospels, and so they are sometimes called the "Synoptic Gospels". Scholars are coming to the view that the Gospels were not the earliest part of the New Testament to be written down, although they are they are the first part of the New Testament. It is also thought that the Gospels may share certain older source