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The 3 “stories” of NT background
Biblical Metanarrative
Story of Israel
2nd Temple Judaism
2000 B.C.
Abraham (Gen. 12)
1500 B.C.
Egyptian Slavery/Exodus
1000 B.C. - Moral Decline into Idolatry and Oppression
Israel gets a King and Temple
722 B.C.
Samaria lost to Exile
586 B.C.
Judah Falls into Exile/Temple Destroyed
500 B.C. - Second Temple Judaism
End of Exile/”Rebuild and Re-evaluate”
Year 0
Jesus arrives
Second Temple Judaism 4 Pillars
The Temple
Land of Israel
Torah
Jewish Ethnic Identity
Second Temple 4 Kingdoms
Persian Empire
Greeks(Alexander the Great)
Bad Maccabee’s
Rome
Jesus’ birth was …
a royal birth and royal scandal
Where does Jesus give his first sermon?
In Narareth
Themes of beginning of Jesus’s Teaching Ministry (Matt & Mark)
Repent
Believe the Good News
Kingdom is Near
Beginning of Jesus’s Teaching Ministry (Luke)
Jesus’ own people turn against him
Ways to read parables
Elaborate Allegories
One-point Lessons
Israel’s story with a subversive twist
Why does Jesus say “If you have ears to hear, then hear…”
Hinting at a deeper meaning
You will get out what you want it to mean
How do Catholics Interpret the Sermon on the Mount
Varsity and JV believers
How do Lutherans interpret the Sermon on the Mount
Two Categories: Law and Gospel
How do the Peace Churches interpret the Sermon on the Mount
literal radical obedience
How does Intern Ethics interpret the Sermon on the Mount
literal radical obedience-for a short time
Kingdom Theology
Kingdom is established; but still growing
What are the Synoptic Gospels?
Matthew, Mark, and Luke (A chronological telling of Jesus’ ministry on earth)
Miracles in the synoptics are called
Dynamos (Act of Power)
Miracles in John’s Gospel are called
Semeian (Signs)
Jesus’ Pattern of Miracles (John 6)
Meets a genuine need out of compassion
work is supernatural but not showy
uses the sign to point to a need of a deeper faith in him
some believe, others doubt
Who is Jesus?
A Rabbi(Teacher)
The “Servant” of Isaiah
The Messiah/Christ
“Son of Man”
Lord
Where does Son Of Man come from?
Daniel 7
Why are people excited at the Triumphal Entry?
They think Jesus will be a Military King
Where do the royal connotations come from in the Triumphal Entry?
The Entry on a Donkey (Zach 9:9)
Preparing the Road (Isaiah 62:10)
Hosanna (Save us “now”)
What action finally got Jesus arrested?
The flipping of tables in the Temple
Why Did Jesus flip the tables?
Cleansing the Temple
An Acted "Parable of Judgement”
YWHW returning to his house on earth
Jesus Jewish Legal Trials
Before Annas (F-I-L of the High Priest)
Before Caiaphis (High Priest)
rips his clothes
Before Sanhedrin
Jesus’ Roman Legal Trials
Before Pilate
Before Herod Anitpas
Back to Pilot
Offering of Barrabbas
Four Insights of The Crucifixion
Reserved for slaves and revolutionaries
A shameful word
Humiliating
Horrors match Divine Judgement
Who does Jesus first appear to resurrected?
Mary in the Garden
Why does the resurrection happen on a Sunday?
To point back to creation. Creation and New Creation started at the beginning of the week
Why does the resurrection happen in a garden?
Back to the Garden of Eden, Jesus is the perfect being we never could be
Why is Jesus mistaken for the gardener
Another Garden of Eden metaphor, Jesus is also the creator of the garden.
The “Swoon” Theory
Jesus never died, he just fainted and everyone thought he died (People cruficed suffocated to death, not from pure wounds)
The “Wrong Tomb” Theory (Con)
Mary was in a hurry and forgot which tomb (Why not reveal the true body of Jesus)
Stolen Body Theory - Disciples (Con)
The Disciples stole the body and said Jesus was raised (why die for an obvious lie)
Stolen Body Theory - Sanhedrin (Con)
The religious leaders stole the body. (Why didn’t they reveal the body)
The Risen in our Hearts Theory (Con)
A gathering of disciples felt is present in a time of grief (feeling him spiritually is way different than eating food with him for a month)
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