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| why sinless messiah needs a baptism (possible) |
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| 1. repentance from regular life to ministry 2. He sinned 3. He didn't know he was perfect 4. Doing good in future doesn't mean you sinned already 5. Substitutionary for our sins, affirming John's ministry |
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This is my son whom I love-- Psalm 2:7
In him I am well pleased-- Isaiah 42:1
Sonship, Deity, Messiahship, suffering servant, representative role |
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| John the Baptist and the Essenes |
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Similarities: Messiah coming, "prepare ye the way," purify to prepare, baptisms
Differences: Essenes= 2 messiahs, John= repentance not purification,one baptism |
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Nazareth near Hellenistic Sepphoris
"Carpenter"
Synagogue 7-10, rabbis 11-15, bar mitzvah, temple incident age 12 |
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| Sources outside the bible: Historians |
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Tacitus- Crucifixion
Pliny the younger- reacting to christians
Seutonius- Disruption among Roman Jews (Chrestus)
Josephus- John the Baptist, James bro of Jesus, testimonium flavanium |
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| Matthew, Genealogy and Numerology |
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3 sets of 14
14= david
3 groups 14= perfect david |
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| Jesus in bible outside gospels |
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1 Cor 15-Death and resurrection
1 Cor 11-Betrayal last supper
1cor 7- I not the lord
2 cor 10- meekness
Acts- speeches, Hebrews- temptation/gethsemane, James- sermon mount connection, Peter- suffering |
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Mishnah and other combined sayings oral commentary
Jesus was magician or sorcerer, but did miracles, Mary got with "Pantera" |
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Fictional, Legendary
Nag Hammadi Egypt find-
Gospel of thomas
150AD, 114 sayings BASED on gospels
Some non- gnostic ones might go back
Jesus seminar likee |
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| 7 pillars of Jesus seminar |
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Definition
1.Historical Jesus vs. Christ of Faith
2.Synoptic Problem
3.Markan Priority
4.Q source
5.No eschatological mission
6.Oral vs. print culture(look for oral)
7.Burden of proof is on scriptures |
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| Presuppositions of Liberal scholarship |
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1. Christ of faith, Jesus of history
2. "Sitz im leben" determines what followers listen to
3. Theology, not history
4. Naturalism
5. Early church, esp prophets, added
6. burden of proof on bible/evangelical |
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| radical skeptic methodology for determining sayings |
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1. Dissimilarity with Jewish AND Christian
2. Coherence
3. Multiple Attestation
4. Unintentionality
5. Aramaic flavor |
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| Evidence for reliability of scriptures |
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| Rabbinic Memorization- started to take notes at this time too, Luke's prologue (Passing on tradition, not making up), Eyewitnesses mentioned by name, Does have Aramaic flavor |
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| Location of ministry (galilee jerusalem), what's included, Jesus's speaking style, Themes (john introduces eternal life, not much on repentance) |
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1. Contradiction
2. Reinterpretation from viewpoint of early church (speak to church problems in voice of Jesus), change style to fit needs
3. Jesus was more reflective and discursive near end of ministry, john casts whole ministry in same light
4. Trying to complement synoptics |
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1. Synoptics are popular literature, not trained historians
2. Based on oral tradition
3. Each gospel is an independent unit, didn't influence each other |
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| Form Criticism story categories |
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Organized by function
Say "why did they invent this" rather than "why did they record this"
1. Pronouncement stories
2. Miracle Stories
3. Myths
4. Legendary
5. Sayings of Jesus |
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| Synoptic Source Criticism options |
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Independence
Augustinian- Canonical order, church tradition
Griesbach- Matthew, Luke, Mark, luke uses matthew and mark independent- church tradition, M+L disagree with mark some
Markan Priority |
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Mark, matthew/luke with q
high percentage of mark reproduced in other two, they rarely agree against him, disagree with each other where mark does not speak. Mark is more rough and blunt with how jesus acts and his emotions. Mark's omissions wouldn't make sense if following the other two |
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Unlikely matthew used luke, must be other common source
Verbally agree to point of unusual vocabulary
Common material is in same order
No traces or parallels to q in NT times
Possible content: sayings with some narratives, no passion story, intent is catechetical |
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Dupont- Sommer: Qumran= essenes
Allegro= shrooms
Wilson- Dead sea scrolls expose "Jesus myth"
Eisenman/Wise- James is teacher of righteousness, Jesus is "PotC"
O'Callaghan- Qumran has earliest OT manuscripts
Bock= Live, Jive, Memorex |
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