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Title: Welcome to the New Testament


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Welcome to the New Testament
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Context
  • Political Scene
  • Greco-Roman world
  • Alexander 333 BCE
  • Ptolemy's / Seleucid Rulers 320-168 BCE
  • Maccabean revolt 168-163 BCE
  • Under Roman Rule 146-400 CE
  • Herod the Great
  • Divided kingdom
  • Herod Agrippa

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Religious
  • 400 yrs of Gods Silence
  • Torah and Temple center of religion
  • Creation of Synagogue
  • Sects
  • Pharisees
  • Sadducees

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Main Character
  • Jesus
  • Overview of Jesus life from historical
    perspective  -Born in Palestine (Bethlehem?)
     -Hometown Nazareth  -Circumcised at temple on
    eighth day.  -Begins ministry around age 30 
    primarily in Galilee.  -Gathers a small band
    of believes and preaches about the coming Kingdom
    of God  -Goes to Jerusalem during Passover
     -Arrested by Romans, charged, tried, executed
    for treason.  -Believers claim that he has been
    raised from dead.

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Language
  • Jesus wrote nothing
  • Spoke Aramaic
  • Oral tradition
  • First writings 20 yrs after death and ascension
  • 4th Century first 27 book canon (NT)

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Synoptic
  • Matthew, Mark and Luke
  • Similar
  • Q source
  • Copied each other
  • John
  • Separate and very different

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Gospel According to Matthew
  • Background, themes and flow

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Matthew
  • Gospels where written for a specific audience.
  • Material supported their cause
  • Highlight certain aspects to validate

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Matthews Background
  • Written to mainly Jewish Christians
  • Prove and support their movement
  • Covers 90 of Mark
  • Interjects the Teachings of Jesus
  • Birth Narrative
  • Fulfillment of Law and Prophets

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Background
  • Writing to a mainly Jewish audience
  • Jesus as New Lawgiver
  • A new law of love!
  • Fulfillment of the Law
  • Connections between Old Testament Text and Jesus
  • Importance of the Genealogy
  • Street credit
  • Look who made the list
  • Jesus from a line of Kings
  • On whose side?

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Group
  • What is the context of the two passages?
  • Does the Old Testament parallel support Jesus as
    the Messiah?
  • Does Jesus ___the Old Testament passage
  • fulfill,
  • recite
  • is giving new meaning to

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  • Isaiah 714 and Matthew 123
  • Micah 52 and Matthew 25-6
  • Hosea 111 and Mt. 215
  • Jeremiah 3115 and Mt. 218
  • Isaiah 534 and Mt. 817
  • Psalm 782 and Mt. 1315
  • Isaiah 6211, Zechariah 99 and Mt. 215
  • Zachariah 1112-13, Jeremiah 326-9 and Mt.
    278-10
  • Isaiah 421-4 and Mt. 1217-21

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Matthew
  • Message of Matthew
  • Jesus fulfillment of the Law
  • Handbook for living in the Kingdom of God

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Matthew
  • Themes
  • Kingdom of Heaven
  • Heaven invades earth
  • Jesus as King/Ruler
  • Now/Not Yet
  • Israel infatuated with the restoration of their
    nation as a kingdom with power, wealth and fame.
  • David and Solomon
  • Following
  • Least is Greatest
  • Costly

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Matthew
  • Resurrection Accounts
  • Similarities between Mark and Matthew
  • Raised from the dead by God
  • Appeared to Disciples
  • Differences
  • Commissioning the Disciples
  • Similarities
  • Differences
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