来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：新约及其历史背景 第5集 第5集》

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  and as a matter of fact, all you have as documents
  事实上 你们能有的
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  for the first few decades of Christianity are the New testament texts.
  基督教初期的文献就只有新约了
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  There are documents not in the New Testament but
  有些经卷不在新约里
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  they tend not to tell us anything we want to know about,
  但是我们想知道的 它们也未必会告诉我们
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  for example, the very beginnings of christianity as a movement.
  比如 基督教运动最开始的情况
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  What you've got in the New Testament comprise at least for
  新约的内容至少包含了
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  some of the earliest material we have.
  我们所能找到的一些最早的资料
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  If you want to know about the life of Jesus,
  如果你想知道耶稣的生平
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  for example, the four canonical gospels with
  比如 四福音
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  perhaps the Gospel of Thomas, which we'll be reading later,
  加上多马福音 我们晚点会读到
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  give you basically the only information about Jesus of
  这些大概是历史学家唯一能找到的
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  Nazareth available to historians,
  关于拿撒勒人耶稣的资料