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New Testament

Kaine Diatheke

textual humanities text scripture core Lifetime Path planned

Creators

  • Early Christian textual tradition, textual tradition

Canon Rationale

Foundational Christian scripture and a major textual corpus for religion, theology, literature, art, political imagination, law, and historical reception; included with explicit translation, canon-boundary, and living-tradition caveats.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 67.

Evidence

  • handbook: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'New Testament'.
  • syllabus: Open Yale Courses, RLST 152, 'Introduction to the New Testament History and Literature'.

Audit Flags

translation dependency, version dependency, community context required

Sensitivity Flags

living tradition

Completion unit: read the complete New Testament in a specified modern translation or study-Bible edition. If the lifetime path later uses selected reading, record the exact sequence rather than treating a source URL as the completion target.

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