Master time line -- 1. Introduction : What is the New Testament? -- 2. The environment of early Christian traditions : the Greco-Roman world -- 3. The environment of early Christian traditions : the world of ancient Judaism -- 4. The traditions of Jesus in their Greco-Roman context -- 5. Jesus, the suffering son of God : the Gospel according to Mark -- 6. Jesus, the Jewish messiah : the Gospel according to Matthew -- 7. Jesus, the rejected prophet : the Gospel according to Luke -- 8. Jesus, the man sent from heaven : the Gospel according to John -- 9. The historical Jesus -- 10. From Jesus to the Gospels -- 11. Luke's second volume : the Book of Acts -- 12. Paul the Apostle : the man and his mission -- 13. Paul and his apostolic mission : I Thessalonians as a test case -- 14. Paul and the crises of his churches : the Corinthian correspondence -- 15. Paul and the crises of his churches : Galatians, Philippians, and Philemon -- 16. The Gospel according to Paul : the Letter to the Romans -- 17. In the wake of the apostle : the Deutero-Pauline and pastoral Epistles -- 18. From Paul's female colleagues to the pastor's intimidated women : the oppression of women in early Christianity -- 19. Christian conflicts with Jews and pagans : Hebrews and 1 Peter -- 20. Christian conflicts with Christians : James, 2 Peter, Jude, and the Johannine Epistles -- 21. Christians and the cosmos : the Book of Revelation.