The New Testament is divided into the New Testament and the Old Testament. The New Testament consists of 27 volumes, including four gospels, a church history book, 265,438+0 apostles' letters and an apocalypse.

The early Christian literature is a new literature produced by the collision and blending of ancient Greek literature and Hebrew literature, which was produced from the middle of 1 century to the end of the 2nd century. This is another source of European literature.

Acts, with a total volume of 1, records its early activities and the deeds of two main preachers, Paul and Peter. It is called epic, with 2 1 volume of letters. The main content is the encouragement and guidance of leaders to believers.

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From the end of the 4th century BC to the 2nd century BC, Athens and Sparta fought for hegemony, and both sides lost. The king of northern Macedonia took advantage of this opportunity to conquer the Greek city-state, and then moved eastward to conquer Egypt, Persia, India and other places, and established the Alexander Empire.

With the expansion of imperial territory, Greek culture spread to the East and communicated with the Eastern culture. This period is called the "Hellenistic" period, and there was the first contradiction, conflict and complementary integration between Greek culture and Hebrew culture.

Hebrew literature, which represents the highest cultural achievement in the Middle East, was introduced to the West at this time and blended with ancient Greek and Roman literature, resulting in new Christian culture and new literature, which opened up a new literary source for later Europe.