Test 1.1 Flashcards
(30 cards)
Matthew 11:28
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:30
For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
Year the Temple was destroyed
70 AD
Definition of Testament
a solemn declaration
Old Testament - 3 sections
o Torah (guidance, teaching, law, aka Pentateuch) o Prophets (Major and Minor) o Writings (Historical, Psalm, Proverbs)
New Testament sections
o Gospels – Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
o Historical – Acts
o Letters - 21
o Prophecy – 1
Definition of Canon
Inspired Books of the Bible
years Apocryphal written
mostly 200 BC – 100 AD.
5 Vertical zone
o Coastal plains
o Shephelah
In Hebrew = “low”
o Central Mountain Range
o Syrian-African (Jordan) Rift {wilderness and the Jordan Valley}
o Eastern Plateau {Eastern mountain range}
5 Horizontal zones
o Above (upper) Galilee (Wet/inaccessible) o Beside (lower) Galilee (Jesus’ Home) o Carmel and Jezreel (Baal) o Negev (South/Dry) – Below Dead Sea o Desert (Wilderness) – Peninsula
4 Seas
o Mediterranean Sea
o Sea of Galilee
o Dead Sea
o Red Sea
3 Continents
o Europe
o Asia
o Africa
2 Worlds
- Land of Honey
- Land of Milk
Land of Honey
• North – Less space, more water • Farmers • Life is o Predictably le o Noisy and congested o Manageable • Focus on o Extras o Peoples as individuals • Nominal religion • Mixture of Judaism and Hellenism
Land of Milk
• South, more space, less water • Shepherds • Life is o Unpredictable o Silent and lonely o Exhausting • Focus on o Essentials o People in community • People are spiritual – center of Hebrew worship.
Diaspora
– the scattered Jews
Synagogue – 4 functions
- Primarily a school, children taught the law and Jewish religious traditions
- Place of worship, where creeds were recited
- Functioned as a court; where religious or civil questions were settled by the local council
- Place of social interaction; where funerals and special meetings took place and even politics were discussed
Reasons for Gospels to be written
- the speed and extent of the spread of the gospel message, made it impossible for the church to spread the gospel by oral means alone.
- Apostles aged and passed away. By AD 70 most of the apostles had perished for their faith. Sense of urgency that the material be recorded before those who knew it best were gone.
- Believers looking to future return of Christ
o Sincerely believed he was returning, but when? Unpredictable
o Wanted Jesus to be remembered up until the end of time
Synoptic Gospels
– Matthew, Mark, Luke
- Syn – together
- Optic – seen
Gospels not just Biography – but Christ Centered Biography
Christological biography
o 2 primary purposes the evangelists had in mind
1. They have selected and arranged material to tell the story of Jesus
2. Through the story of Jesus, they are saying something important to the first readers (and to us)
Author of Matthew
– Matthew (No claim of authorship in text)
Date of Authorship
– Dependent on Mark. Most likely 65 – 70 AD, before the fall of Jerusalem
Message of Matthew
– Show Jesus as Teacher, Messiah, and King of Israel.
Structure of Matthew
– Narrative interwoven with blocks of teaching
