is the actual writing of the gospels - matthew, mark, luke, and john - each with their own direction, each to a specific audience. mark, obviously, to an apocalyptic community that felt that the world was imminently coming to an end. matthew presents jesus as the greater teacher, the interpreter of the torah. luke to a more gentile audience, and jesus becomes the savior for all peoples and all nations. and finally john, later, much more gnostic, much more holy spirit-oriented, so that the church becomes the vehicle in which the holy spirit will descend. so again, we have an interesting connection between myth in its earliest form, and how it concretizes into a full religious movement. >> you see how the doctrinal dimension moves in there in terms of the interpretation. i loved it - i figured this out - well, i didn't figure it out - as i studied the new testament, something people don't often realize is the different tone to the gospel, to each one of the gospels. and why? because they develop out of individual communities with a certain purpose and a certain audience. and so right there,
