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Harry Y. Gamble jr. (born in 1941) is an American professor emeritus within the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. He retired from full-time teaching in 2014. [1] [2]
Gamble earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) at Wake Forest University, a Master of Divinity (MDiv) at Duke University and a Master of Arts (MA) at Yale University. [3] From 1970, Gamble holds a PhD from Yale University. His doctoral dissertation is titled: The textual history of the Letter to the Romans.
In 1970, Gamble joined the Religious Studies Department at the University of Virginia (Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity). [4] From 1992 to 2006, Gamble chaired the department, and he retired from full-time teaching in 2014. [4]
His research was on the topic of the development of the New Testament, particularly "the extent of Literacy in early Christian communities; the relation in the early church between Oral tradition and written materials; the physical form of early Christian books; how books were produced, transcribed, published, duplicated, and disseminated; how Christian libraries were formed; who read the books, in what circumstances, and to what purposes." [2] [5] [6] [7]
The Bible is a collection of religious texts or scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, and many other religions. The Bible is an anthology—a compilation of texts of a variety of forms—originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. These texts include instructions, stories, poetry, and prophecies, among other genres. The collection of materials that are accepted as part of the Bible by a particular religious tradition or community is called a biblical canon. Believers in the Bible generally consider it to be a product of divine inspiration, but the way they understand what that means and interpret the text can vary.
The Epistle to the Romans is the sixth book in the New Testament, and the longest of the thirteen Pauline epistles. Biblical scholars agree that it was composed by Paul the Apostle to explain that salvation is offered through the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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The Gospel of Luke tells of the origins, birth, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ. Together with the Acts of the Apostles, it makes up a two-volume work which scholars call Luke–Acts, accounting for 27.5% of the New Testament. The combined work divides the history of first-century Christianity into three stages, with the gospel making up the first two of these – the life of Jesus the Messiah from his birth to the beginning of his mission in the meeting with John the Baptist, followed by his ministry with events such as the Sermon on the Plain and its Beatitudes, and his Passion, death, and resurrection.
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