What is emulating Jesus by living out love for God and for our neighbor?
Discipleship
What is the word describing praise, a heartfelt worshipful response?
Doxology
What are the truths we believe about who God is and what he has done for us?
Doctrine
What is the big unfolding story of the Bible, from creation to the fall and all the way to Jesus called?
Drama
What are the “4 D’s” of growing as a Christian?
Discipleship.
What is recomended for approching Bible reading?
Read the Bible daily
Read the Bible through for breadth
Study the Bible for depth
What is true about Hebrew poetry?
It is concise, uses parallelism, and uses imagery
What is the best way to read didactic prose?
In its logical context: looking at the whole letter, sermon, or legal code
In its historical context: considering the situation of the group to whom the author originally wrote
In its literary context: understanding the references and allusions to past events or older texts of Scripture that the author alludes to
What writings of the Bible are didactic prose?
Sermons, legal codes, and letters
What does it mean to read the Bible in its literary context?
To consider what previously-written stories and histories the authors drew on to tell their stories
What does reading the Bible in its historical context refer to?
What the text would have meant to its original readers and hearers
When we look at whole stories and how they fit into the whole books of the Bible, we are considering the what?
Plot context
Which of these phrases best describes the roles of the Old Testament, the Gospels, and the New Testament, respectively?
Anticipate, announce, explain
What three phrases best describe the Bible?
A library with one message, both human and divine, deeply personal but not private
What does testament mean?
Old English for covenant
At which event did Jesus establish his new covenant?
What does the canon mean?
Greek for a rule or standard of measurement
By what time was the majority of what we now call the New Testament widely used by the church?
The late 2nd century and the early 3rd century A.D.
Why were the books of the New Testament so special to the early church?
They were inspired directly by God himself.
They are the earliest written Christian books, all written in the 1st century and some within 40 years of Jesus’ death and resurrection.
They are all connected to Jesus’ apostles in some way.
What does scripture refer to?
Writings inspired by God, such as the Old Testament, the Gospels, and the letters of the Apostles
What was true of the writers of the New Testament?
They were commissioned by Jesus to teach and preach.
They were inspired by God to write about this new covenant that God was bringing about.
They each were an apostle of Jesus or a scribe of an apostle.
What language was the New Testament originally written in and why is it important?
Koine, or common, Greek, the language of the people
What two characteristics are essential for a good Bible translation?
Readable and accurate
For the purpose of this class, how will we be grouping the books of the New Testament?
By author or groups of authors
What is the three main points that outline the gospel of Luke?
1.First is the introduction, which details the stories of Jesus’ family before his birth, stories of his birth and infancy, and a brief account of Jesus’ boyhood.
2.Second is the story of Jesus’ home mission in Galilee.
3.Last is Jesus’ final week in Jerusalem, leading to his death and resurrection.
What is Luke’s purpose in writing his book?
So his readers may have historical certainty that the things they had been taught really happened
In the first section of Luke, what three people broke into poetic celibration?
Mary, Zechariah, and Simeon
Which literary device encloses stories in a unit, putting “bookends” of similar content at the beginning and end of the unit?
An inclusio
In which region did Jesus begin his public ministry?
Galilee
Why is looking for repetition a key in biblical interpretation?
It’s the author’s way of putting a point in bold, emphasizing something very important.
What are the three major themes of Luke’s gospel?
1.Jesus is specifically coming to the poor of the world who have longed for God to release them from the tyranny of sin and death.
2.Jesus is a man of constant prayer.
3.Jesus has come for the Gentiles as well as the Jews.
In the second phase of Jesus’ Galilean ministry, which two themes does Luke contrast?
The height of Jesus’ fame and glory and the mission of his coming death
What is Luke’s most unique contribution to the life and ministry of Jesus?
The journey-to-Jerusalem theme, which contains an enormous amount of material that isn’t in any other Gospel account
What is the literary device of parallelism?
Cycling through several themes, and then repeating those themes in the same order
What is the “study of last things”?
Eschatology
What are the 10 themes of Jesus’ ministry along the road to Jerusalem?
Jesus is bound and determined to go to Jerusalem
Jesus is potrayed as a prophey who encounters rejection and resistance
Jesus displays His divine authority
Jesus teaches the crowds, urging them to respond
Jesus confronts Jewish religious leaders about their depravity
Jesus warns against emulating the religious leaders
Jesus encourages the disciples to have greater faith
Jesus speaks about eschatology
Jesus talks about the role of the 12 apostles
Jesus predicts His coming death
In which fashion does Luke lay out events in his gospel?
Thematically
What are some of the ways Jesus displays his divine authority in the second thematic cycle of the book?
He heals a man with dropsy.
He interprets the law of Moses correctly.
He points out the Pharisees’ hypocrisy.
What is a key to interpreting parables?
Look at what else is going on at the moment the story is being told
What are some of the parables Jesus tells to respond to the attitude of the Pharisees?
The lost coin, sheep, and son
What was Jesus’ response to the Pharisees’ question about when the Kingdom of God would come?
It is here now, because Jesus himself is here.
Why did Jesus ride on a colt for his triumphal entry into Jerusalem?
It was a fulfillment of a prophecy and an announcement of his coming in peace, as a king.
What are the prophecies that Jesus made in Luke chapter 21, which has since been fulfilled?
Many Jews would be killed by the sword, which happened in AD 70 when more than a million Jews were killed in siege by the Romans, and has happened in other ways since.
Other Jews would be carried into other countries by the Gentiles, which was fulfilled when about 97,000 Jews were taken as captive slaves.
Jerusalem would be “trampled underfoot by the Gentiles,” which has been fulfilled as various non-Jewish groups, political and religious, have controlled Jerusalem ever since.
What was significant about what Jesus did during his final Passover meal with his disciples?
He took a centuries-old feast and used it to point to his own sacrificial death.
He ratified a new covenant of forgiveness for sinners.
He set an example of loving service to his disciples.
According to the lesson, what is notable about Luke’s account of Jesus’ crucifixion?
Luke records more conversations Jesus had demonstrating his compassion to others.
On what did Luke place his emphasis in his account of the resurrection?
Christ’s word
What were imporatant elements of Luke’s account of Jesus on the road to Emmaus?
It happened on the evening of Easter Sunday.
Jesus taught the disciples from the Scripture why the Christ needed to suffer and die.
The disciples recognized Jesus when he broke bread with them.
Which story from early in the book is paralleled with the Emmaus account (an example of a literary inclusio, or bookend)?
The journey of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph to Jerusalem for the Passover
What is a proclamation of Jesus’ coming, from beginning to end?
Peace
How are the books of Luke and Acts thematically linked?
In both books, Luke shows God’s actions in history to fulfill his promises to Israel and to create a world-wide, Jew/Gentile body of believers.
What is significant about this statement from Jesus in the first part of the book: “You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth”?
It becomes Luke’s outline for the entire book.
What happened at Pentecost that started fulfilling God’s promised plan to send the gospel out to “the ends of the earth”?
Jewish people from all over the known world heard the gospel.
The disciples were given supernatural power to preach in languages they hadn’t previously learned.
Many people were baptized and became followers of Jesus.
What is a chiasm?
Certain phrases or ideas are stated in one order in the first half of a section or story, and in reverse order in the second half.
What even sparks the persecution of the church in Jerusalem?
The stoning of Stephen.
Whose conversion story gives a powerful example of how God is bringing the gospel to those the Jews considered outsiders?
The Ethiopian eunuic.
To whom did Jesus appear on the road to Damascus?
Saul.
How does God make the point to Peter that the gospel is not only for the Jews but for the Gentiles, those that Jewish people considered “unclean”?
He shows a vision to Peter of “unclean” animals with the instruction, “Kill and eat.”
The events of the second main section of Acts show how the gospel is expanding both geographically and out from its Jewish beginnings to groups of people more and more removed from the Jews. Which progression of the expansion is correct?
Samaritans come to faith, then foreign converts to Judaism, then Hellenistic (or Greek-speaking) Jews, then Gentiles.
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