Christian Scriptures Final Pt #2

The Book of the Twelve

the twelve so-called “minor prophets”; theorizes that all twelve books were compiled/transmitted on one scroll

The Writings

Cyrus

liberates Jews from Babyloin, lets them go home and build temple

Ezra-Nehemiah

Ezra (character)

Nehemiah (character)

Chronicles

The Psalms

Form Criticism

focus on categorizing formal patterns and structures

Genre

formal category

Resilience Studies

how texts derive from resilience and encourag resilience

Parallelism

structure of parallel words

Ruth (book and character)

Moabite widow who naviagets cultural world with mother in law

Esther (book and character)

becomes persian queen → saves her people

Daniel (book and character)

apocalypse, gets deported, interprets dreams, survives lions den

Apocalypse

celestial warefare

Wisdom Literature

poetic genre concerned with right vs wrong

Proverbs (genre and book)

short pratical teaching about life

Job (character and book)

he good, ha-satan thinks its only cause gods given good life, god takes, he never cursed gods name

Ecclesiastes

orgianlly called Qohelth

Qoheleth

Teacher

Alexander the Great

overtakes Persian empire, when dies divieds land among generals

Hellenism

spread of greek culture

Judaism

greek provance of Jerusalem

Syagogues

local worship places for scripture reading interpretation and debate

Pharisees

teachers sought to embody mosaic laws; similar with Jesus

Sadducees

mostly temple personial must decide what is good/wise

Destruction of the Second Temple

70 CE

Gospel (term and genre)

genre = ministry of Jesus

term = good news

The Synoptic Gospels

Mark, Matthew, Luke

Two-Source Hypothesis

Jesus, Christ and Son of God

Genealogies (Matt and Luke)

only in Matthew and Luke

Infancy Narratives (Matt and Luke)

Baptism and Temptation

Galilean Ministry

Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem

Crucifixion and Resurrection

John the Baptist

Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John:

Audience (hypothesized)

Unique style and themes

Overall emphasis / “portrait” of Jesus

Parable

Logos

Acts of the Apostles

Apostle

Pentecost

Peter

Paul (Acts)

The Jerusalem Council (Acts 15; Gal 2)

Pauline Epistles (general info, context, message):

1 Thessalonians

Galatians

1–2 Corinthians

Romans

Philippians

Philemon

The Collection

Christology

Soteriology

Pseudonymity

Parousia

Immanent Eschatology

Canonical Criticism

Meaning-making

Onesimus

General/Catholic Epistles (general info, context, message):

Hebrews

James

Revelation

Millenarianism(s)