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The gospel or good news is a theological concept in several religions. In the historical Roman imperial cult and today in Christianity , the gospel is a message about salvation by a divine figure, a savior, who has brought peace or other benefits to humankind.
Gospel is the Old English translation of the Hellenistic Greek term ... Matthew is full of quotations and allusions, ... but over the expanse of the Roman Empire ...
Churches had been planted in the Roman provinces of Galatia, Macedonia, Achaia and Asia. Paul, considering his task complete, wanted to preach the gospel in Spain, where he would not "build upon another man's foundation". [26] [27] This allowed him to visit Rome on the way, a long-time ambition of his. The letter to the Romans, in part ...
Gospel of Thomas – The Gospel of Thomas (also known as the Coptic Gospel of Thomas) is a non-canonical sayings gospel [4]; Gospel of Basilides – composed in Egypt around 120-140 AD, thought to be a Gnostic gospel harmony of the canonical gospels [4]
The reference to "the gospel of God" in this salutation is distinctive. [1] The phrase appears again in Romans 15:16. William Sanday reflects that the ambiguous genitive, the gospel of God, seems to mean "the gospel which proceeds from God", or "of which God is the author", rather than "the gospel of which God is the object". [12]
Second part of the calendar inscription of Priene. The Priene calendar inscription (IK Priene 14) is an inscription in stone recovered at Priene (an ancient Greek city, in Western Turkey) that records an edict by Paullus Fabius Maximus, proconsul of the Roman province of Asia and a decree of the conventus of the province accepting the edict from 9 BC.
This Gospel was called the Gospel according to the Hebrews [27] or sometimes the Gospel of the Apostles [28] [29] and it was once believed that it was the original to the 'Greek Matthew' found in the Bible. [30] However, this has been challenged by modern biblical scholars such as Bart D. Ehrman and James R. Edwards. [31] [32] [c] [33] [34]
The name "Acts of the Apostles" was first used by Irenaeus in the late 2nd century. It is not known whether this was an existing name for the book or one invented by Irenaeus; it does seem clear that it was not given by the author, as the word práxeis (deeds, acts) only appears once in the text (Acts 19:18) and there it refers not to the apostles but to deeds confessed by their followers.