Synopsis

This overview course introduces participants to the New Testament in its different layers. The course aims to help participants better read the New Testament: as individual texts within the cultural worlds of Graeco-Roman civilisation and Second Temple Judaism, as sub-collections of texts within literary genres, as a corpus in continuity and discontinuity with the Old Testament, and as part of the canon of sacred Scripture. The course will also illustrate how the New Testament and its major themes have been received and (re)appropriated through time, thus helping participants reflect on its relevance for today.

Biodata

Rev Gilbert Lok serves as a pastor in the Trinity Annual Conference (TRAC) of The Methodist Church in Singapore, and is in his 7th year of ministry at Barker Road Methodist Church. Gilbert trained in economics and was previously a civil servant at the Prime Minister’s Office where he led a small team of policy researchers and strategists. He received an MDiv from TTC and an MSt in New Testament from Oxford University.