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| Names of Political Figures important during life of Jesus |
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King Herod the great
Sons:
Pontius polite
• Herod dies→Kingdom divided among sons:
o Archelaus
• Ethnarch - Governor of an ethnic or minority community
Region of Idiumea, Samaria and Judea
• Herod Antipes
o Petrarch – Prince of an ethnic or minority community
• Galiliee
• Philip
o Petrarch – Prince of an ethnic or minority community
• North and east of Galillee |
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| Four primary sects within first century Judaism |
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2nd law of Moses→Oral law
Law develops and unfolds, God continues to communicate law
Linked to the Temple cult→Jewish aristocracy o Conservative in their approach to the law→adhered only to the written law
Torah-written law (first 5 books)
- Zealots ! (not officially a sect in Jesus’ day) o Believed and awaited a messiah
Military ruler lead them against the romans and expel the romans and reestablish the jewish land’
- Essenes ! (150 years before Jesus comes on the seen)
mosastic |
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| Pauls answer to the three questions: who is god |
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o Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
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| Pauls answer to who is Jesus |
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| o Death and resurrection • Central event o Not the final event • Jesus’ return |
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| Pauls answer to who are we |
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we are called to reflect the life of christ
we become human to that extent
o Surrender to Jesus who is a life giving spirit |
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| Three stages of gospel development |
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1. Situation of the life of Jesus
2. Situation of the life of the Church i. Spreading the word
3. Situation in the life of the Disciples |
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| Reasons for delay in writing gospels |
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85% illiteracy during this period
Proclaimed the bible first, wrote it later
1st generation of leaders was starting to die off
• intentional collection so they survive into next generation |
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Mark
•Matthew-M source
o Material from Mark
• Luke-L source
o Material from Mark
o Parable of good Samaritan o Parable of prodigal son • Shared by Matthew and Luke- Q source (quelle-source) |
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| Chronological order of gospels |
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• Mark
• Matthew
• Luke
• John |
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o Chapter 8
• Peter’s confession of the messiah “you are the messiah”
Messiah-christos-the annointed one
Restore the divinic kingdom
o Jesus predicts his death 3 times
• Messiah is to suffer
• People are conspiring against him
o Death in ch. 15 Possibility of misunderstanding Reality of suffering, ability to stand up for the cause Power of expectation |
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1. Suffering servant
2. Messianic Secret
• Secret that Jesus is the messiah
• Misunderstood→never used the title himself, others just say it of him
3. Imminence of the kingdom
• Sense of expectation
o Gentile inclusion
• Jesus sees his mission as outreach to Jews themselves
• Mission expands beyond Israel to include larger gentile world
• System works a certain way
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| Three primary criteria for determing historicity |
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1. Multiple attestation
• Story/saying/event appears in multiple sources increases the likelihood that it goes back to Jesus 2 unique traditions→not Matthew and Mark because Matthew takes from Mark o
2. Embarrassment
• Appears to be embarrassing to early community but still in gospel increases likelihood that it goes back to Jesus
3. Rejection and Execution criteria |
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| Four powers in Jesus' day |
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illness
demons
nature
supreme=death |
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| Miracles as embodied proclamation |
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o Dynameis-greek word-acts of power
• Embodied proclamations
by mouth and in deed
o In anticipation for the fulfillment of the kingdom
• Calmes the storm at sea→doesn’t mean he’s eliminated the power of nature itself
• It’s all about the Kingdom for Mark |
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5 Major discourses/speeches
• 3 appearances of phrase "from that time on…."
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| Themes in Matthews Gospel |
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1. Fulfillment of scripture
2. Authority of the church
3. Higher righteousness
o Sermon on the map
4. God is with us (beginning and end)
5. Inclusion of the gentiles
o Abrahamic covenant
o Go therefore make disciples of all nations
• Fulfillment of promise of Abrahamic covenant
• To proclaim good news of gospels
• Be source of blessing to all nations of the world Jesus relationship with sinners |
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| The definition of a parable |
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| A parable is a metaphor or similie drawn from nature or common life arresting the hearer by its vividness or strangeness leaving the mind insufficient doubt about it's precise application to tease it into active thought. |
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• The journey to Jerusalem
• Infancy narrative |
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1. Social Justice
o Especially concerned for sinners, persecuted, women etc.
• Jesus is merciful and compassionate
o Only in luke • Jesus is hanging on cross→encounter with the good theif
• Challenge immediacy of the kingdom
2. Superiority of Jesus o Certain sect believed John the Baptist was messiah
3. Universal significance of Jesus
4. The fulfillment of Israel’s history
Acts of the Apostles
• Same author of Luke
• Builds on same things of Luke Author of Luke
• Theology of history
•3 Phases o Israel o Time of Jesus o Time of the Church o End of time has begun
5. Gentile Inclusion |
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• The book of Signs
o Ch1-12
• I AM
• Book of Glory |
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1. high vs. low christology
2.one on one encounters
3. Sacramental Empasis-water→baptism wells up in us(eternal life)
• Eternal life begins at baptism
• Jesus→woman→village
• Village→woman→Jesus Sacrament-anything that reveals the presence of God
• Water • Light • Life
4. I AM sayings |
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| emphasizes Jesus’ divinity (characteristics of God) |
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| emphasizes Jesus’ humanity |
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| Jesus in passion narrative |
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Jesus's mercy in Passion narrative
Death and Resurrection Narratives
Each of the gospel narratives prepares the reader for what is to come in Jesus’ later days
Mark emphasizes the suffering servant Matthew makes change from Mark
• Ch 26 verse 30:Matthew adds place name-Mount of Olives o Place that Jews would be familiar with eg. Gettysburg, mt Vernon etc.
Luke • God heals and forgives in the crucifixion
John• King who forgives and reigns from the cross • Gives his life up freely
• Has the power to take it up again |
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| Themes of the Ressurection of Jesus in the gospel Narratives |
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Role of Women
• First day of the week-new creation→begin/inaugurated→fulfilled when Jesus returns
o Moral claim-agents of the new creation
• Transformation • Life • Justice • union
• Women/Woman came to the tomb to discover
o Bodily raised from the dead
Jesus' initiative. reveals himself. |
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| 7 ps to approach revelation |
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• Predictive approach
o imposition o God’s plan
• Preterist approach
o Past approach already happened
• Poetic approach creates a world like harry potter can teach great truths about god, history, justice etc.
• Persecution approach
• Political approach o Resistance literature
• Psychological o Therapeutic literature o Vent→this isn’t going to last forever
• Paranetic approach o Anti-assimilation literature o Battle against of loss of identity to the host society (clearly Christian (Rome is evil) o Deitrich Bonhoeffer believes Christian church in Germany had lost paranetic edge and bought into Hitler’s vision |
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| Characteristics of a gospel |
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evangelical proclamation of the good news
faith document
not biography |
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| seven authentic letters of Paul |
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o Romans
o 1 & 2 Corinthians
o Galatians
o Phileman
o Letter to slave owner
o Thessalonians
o Phillipians |
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