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UBBL Luke 1
Study of Luke
Question | Answer |
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The big 3 | A. What is the Genre (type of lit) B. Historical context inc. World View C. What is literary Context. |
Significance of son | Carry on the name, live through son. |
Air between earth and moon was filled with | Demons |
Moon day was the worst day of the | Week (Luna-tick) |
Sun was considered a | Planet |
Moon Day, Tuesday Mars, Wodens day, Thor Thursday | |
The synagogue was a place to | Teach |
Rabi | Pharisee |
Persia policy | Send them home and tax them |
Babylon policy | Take the best of them |
Assyria | Disperse them |
Temple is related to the | Sadducees |
After the Diaspora | A lot of people stayed |
Rabbi, Torah, Synagogue, Lawyers are all related to the | Pharisees |
During the Persian rule ideas such as | Resurrection and Satan’s helper both arose |
Hellenism | Greek influence |
Septuagint | Greek Bible |
Gymnasium | Social center for Greeks |
Kumran | Disilusioned priests who left Jerusalem when Anticas. |
what did Anticas do? | Pork barbecues |
Herendous tribulation for 7 years was called | the abomination that makes desolate |
Macabees was the leader of the | revolt |
What does Hasmonean mean? | |
Boundary Markers | Sabbath observance, food laws, idolatry, circumcision |
Two Crises | 1. Exile 2. Persecution by Anticas |
LXX Septuagint | 70-72 Jewish leaders put this together |
Capernum geographically | Near Galilee (northwest shore of Galilee) |
Signficance of Capernum | |
Nazareth Geographically | Kind of remote to the left of the sea of Galilee |
Signifcance of Nazareth | Where Jesus hung out |
Sephorus Geographically | Above Nazareth (Jesus may have lived here |
Tiberias | Capital city |
Sources for places | The Bible and Josephus |
Bar-Kochba | was thought to be the messiah |
Anointed | Messiah |
People anointed | king, prophet, priest. |
Solomon’s temple time frame | 950-587 |
The second temple time frame | 515BCE-70 CE |
Cyrus cylinder | telling them they could go home |
Jewish priests built the expansion per | Herod the Great |
Themes of Luke | Prayer, healing, obedience, servant’s heart, travel, justice, money |
Reversal relative to Jesus ministry | things turned upside down |
Reciprocity was | important |
What is the difference between Ptolemy and Selucids? | |
Similitude | Extended simile |
Anticas made circumcision | unlawful |
What are ten things the birth Naratives have in common? | Predetermined name, command not to be afraid, prophesy of conception, greatness promised, Gabriel brings message, time setting, lineage, doubt, “don’t be afraid”, problem posed, filled with Holy Spirit |
Oikonomia | stewardship |
Oikonomas | Steward |
Work is a | calling from God |
Luke 4:43 | |
Dei | It is necessary |
Messiah in Hebrew(?) | Meshiach meaning anointed |
Christos | anointed |
Son of God | King |
In wilderness temptation, Jesus refuses | to exercise power for own survival |
Why were stories collected? | Missionary preaching and teaching, other-polemics, discipline, worship, entertainment |
T/F Stories of Jesus were used w/ little or no interst in the historical, why? | central affirmation of the faith, therefore, did not celebrate a dead hero, but a living lord" (Achtemeier, p. 3). |
Why write a gospel? | A. the need to enlarge circle of evangelism/teaching B. to present a body of authorative teaching C. fulfill natural curiosity of a new convert |
Redaction | edited |
Standard assumption of sources? | Mark with a Q source |
Luke improves | Mark’s Greek style and language |
Luke orients | his gospel toward Jerusalem |
Description of reading from scroll | Violent, passionate, emotional |
Unique to Luke | Good Samaritan/Prodigal son |
Programatic statement in | Luke 4 |
A plug is found in | Luke 4 |
Luke’s passion 2 things | words from cross, double trial |
Luke rewords and has | lots of special extra material |
Dualistic | Present age followed by age to come |
Day Of God-early exilic | expected Davidic King in history |
Day of God-Later apocolayptic | transcnendent kingdom, end of history per se, ie literature (Daniel, Revelation), group of people – an oppressed minority |
Pessimistic world view | God must intervene |
Ptochi | |
Characteristics | day of judgment of salvation or both |
Escatological | How will the world end? |
Luke view of kingdom of God | Escatalogical or out in the future kingdom of God |
The New age and old age overlap | Kingdom of God begins in Jesus and was present wherever Jesus went. |
Character of the kingdom of God | Is…Reign of God, a gift, present realm of blessing, universal not national, difficult to enter, requires act of God to inherit, growing (starts small) |
Lukan Beattitudes | emphasizes application to reader through 2nd person, includes “woes |
Miscellaneous observation of Beattitudes | addressed to disciples, standard thought assumed the rich were blessed by God |
Poor had certain | economic/religious connotations;there was dependence on God/economically |
What was first public action in Luke’s gospel? | reading from scroll of Isaiah |
The spirit of the | Lord is upon me because he has sent me to preach the gospel, Luke 4 |
Prophet =? | Preacher |
Parables | a picturesque figure of speech in which an analogy refers to a similar but different reality |
Types of parables | story, metaphor, similitude, proverbs |
Story parables ie | lost sheep, lost son, workers in the vineyard |
Don’t treat a parable as an | allegory |
Metaphor | you are the salt of the earth (simile like salt) |
Similitude | extended simile, leaven in the dough story, mustard seed |
Proverbs in Luke | Doctor cure yourself the… |
allegories ie | soil |
Disecting Parables | 1. Look for setting 2. Understand the cultural context 3. Determine how original readers would hear it 4. Look for punch line |
Luke 7 vs 40 how would the Pharisees hear Samaritan story? | Throw them off because expect themselves to be the heroes. |
3 views of Demons | 1) response- everything caused by a demon, problem = demon 2)No such things as demons 3) Can’t we all just get along? Comrpomise |
confirmation bias | believe what you want to believe |
Satan | Accuser |
Diablos | accuser |
OT perspective on evil | God works alone, both good and evil derive from YHWH |
intertestamental | becomes God’s enemy |
Zorastrianism | two independent and equal powerful deities, one good (Ahura Mazda) and one evil () |
Satan can refer to human | adversary ie Peter |
Lucifer | light bearer, morning star |
Early Chruch believed that Christ would return | In the immediate future |
What is the message of Jesus? | The kingdom of God |
Characteristics of day of YHWH | Day of judgment or salvation or both |
Luke time frame | 1. Escatalogical 2. Present 3. Already-Not-yet |
Luke Characteristics 8 | Basic meaning—reign of God Spiritual as opposed to physical Universal, not national Comes forcefully (Luke 16:16) It is a gift (Luke 6:20) Present realm of blessing (Luke 11:52) Difficult to enter (Luke 18:24) Growing (Luke 13:18; 13:20-21) |
Luke Beattitudes | Luke rewords in the second person in order to emphasize their application to the reader. Luke adds the term "now.“ Luke adds the woes. |
Miscellaneous Observations | 1.The Beatitudes are addressed to disciples 2.Standard thought assumed rich= blessed by God 3."Blessed" means recipients of God's favor (thus Jesus reverses values). |