It was a wonderful class this past Sunday. We looked at how the NT juxtaposes the letters (Epistles) of Paul with Luke/Acts and how Luke changes the center of Christianity from Greece and Northern Israel to Jerusalem. Luke puts Paul (and Jesus) in Jerusalem at every turn so that the concept of the 'New Israel' is what influences the reader. The text becomes the 'gospel' because the text itself says it's the gospel. This is the nature of all biblical (including OT) literature.
Our next class will be our last one (for now) and we will be studying Escatology (i.e., end-times specifically focussing on Revelations and how the Jews fit into this most interesting schema.
I am looking forward to seeing you all there.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
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