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| The Babylonian empire rises in the East, overthrows Assyrian rule. Babylon overthrows Judah, wrecks Jerusalem and the temple and leads the people into exile |
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| The period of exile in Babylon for the leading people of Judah. The exile ends when Cyrus the Great of Persia defeats the Babylonians (539) and allows the Jews to return in 538 |
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| The post-exilic period. Some Jews return to Judah. The temple is rebuilt (520-515) and the walls of Jerusalem are reconstructed, and religious reforms are imposed by Ezra and Nehemiah during the period 450-390 |
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| Alexander the Great conquers the Near East, including Juda (332) and establishes the dominance of Greek rule and culture (called Helenization). Judah is governed by the Greeks in Egypt (the Ptolemies until 198) and later in Syria (the Seleucids, until 164). |
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| The Maccabees of Judea revolt against the Greeks and gain independence in 164; Jewish Hasmonean rule lasts until 63. Jewish factionalism dissolves Jewish power. Roman rule is established in Judah in 63 BCE. At the end of this period the Zealots, Pharisees, Sadducees and Essenes are claiming to point to the recovery of Israel's true identity. |
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| Roman rule continues and in response o Jewish uprisings Jerusalem is sacked, the temple destroyed and the people of Usrael scattered. Pharisaism becomes the dominant form of Judaism leading to rabbinic Judaism based in the Holy Scriptures, Misnah and Talmud |
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Preparations to take over the land. Be strong and courageous.
SPying on the th land- Rahab the prostitute
Follow the ark. Called to be consecrated.
Cross the Jordan. Circumcision and Passover
Meeting of the angel- we are on his side. The LORD said that the army should march around Jericho. On the seventh day they shouted and the walls fell. They destroyed the city. |
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Isrealites demand a king at great cost.
Saul goes looking for his father's donkey and is annointed ruler of Israel.
Saul defeats the ammonites. Made king. Saul is told his kingdom wont last. Jonathan goes against the philistines. Saul spares king amalek but its wrong and samuel kills him, Samuel annoints Jesse's son David as king. Philistines send giant against israelites david kills him
Notes From Text Book: Rejecting YHWH is seen as going against God's preferred plan- he does not want human soverignty. The prophet samuel still more immediately directs God's will. Heavy Social, Political and Economic Costs. God still blesses them. |
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David heard Johnathons son Mephibosheth was lame and restored him. Joab and David defeat the king of Ammon David lies w/ Bathsheba, kills husband and marries her. Bathsheba bears Solomon. Amnon rapes Tamar and is killed by Absalom. David allows Absolem to come back. Absolem desires to be king and sleeps with Davids concubines. Absolem dies David moourns. The men of Israel desert David
Notes: David and Solomon expand Israel, and it becomes a world power for God. Building of the temple
David hung out at home and let other people do the dirty work |
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David annoints Solomon as King. Solomon kills the other sons. Marries Pharoahs daughter, judges the baby mommas. Solomon builds the temples with gold.
Solomon is promised is throne will be established by God. Sheba tells him he is a good king. Solomon turns to other gods and has lots of wives and dies.
\the growth of the nation requires taxation- soldiers, concubines, servants, natural resources and this causes strife among the tribes.
Focal point of taking is Bathsheba and David.
Solomon takes a lot too and the kingdom is taken from him the kingdom divoded.
Gods blessing is also evident during Solomons reign- economic wellbeing, wisom, mutual blessing. YHWH is knwon akog with davids widom. She sees the goodness of the king of Israel. |
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The Lord punishes various countries and Judag and Israel for selling poor people and humbles them. The Lord reveals he will punish Israel. Prepare to meet your God O Israel. Israel falls and justice rolls like waters. Woe to you at ease in zion the lord raises up a nation against you.
The Lord sends a famine on Israel. The Lord sais strike the pillars until the earth shakes, I will restore my people.
The kingdom divdes- 922 BCE into Isreal and Judah. YHWH sends many prophets to call the kings and people back to him. |
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| Jeremiah wrote to the exiles seek peace for the city. After 20 years you will return. Ahab, Zedekiah and Shamaiah speak lies. |
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| God gives strength to the people. Israel is told to worship God. Turn away from other |God's. God makes a covenant to protect all who are weary. |
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| Mary bears Jesus wise men worksip him and he is spared from Herod. John baptises Jesus. Juese is tempted in the wilderness. Calls Peter, Andrew, James and John to follow him and preached and healed the sick. Blessed are the pure in heart. Go your Good deeds in secret. Serve God Do not judge others. Calms a storm and casts out demons. Whoever recieves you recieves me. A tree is known by its fruit. Take up your cross and follow me. |
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| Jesus is transfigured a voice sais this is my son. Forgive 70 x 7. Sell everthing and follow me. Do not seperate what God has joined. Jesus rides into Jersalem on a donkey. Love God and Love your neighbour. No one knows the day. Judas betrays Jesus, Peter denies him. Jesus handed to pilate and is crucified. Jesus meets the women at the tomb and the 11 are told to go and make disciples. |
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The word of God became flesh and dwelt with us. John the Baptist bore witness to him. Andrew tod Simon Peter and they followed Jesus
No private ownership. |
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| Have the mind of Christ who humbled himself even to a cross. Work out your salvation with trembling. I hope to send Timothy to you |
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Paul, to the saints in Colossae, may you be filled with wisdom The son is the image of the invisible God. I make known the mystery
He is the heir and all goof things come from him and are made for him. |
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| Jesus said you will recieve my spirit and was taken up on a cloud. At pentacost they were filled with the spirit and 3000 believed. Peter and John healed a lame man at the temple. The believers prayed for boldness. Ananias and Sapphira. Stephen preaches about Jesus and is stoned. Philip Proclaims Christ. Saul went to arrest believers and is baptized. Peter preaches to the gentils.Jesus is always a body. The hope of Christians is that the body was resurrected from the dead. Go make disciples of men and do what is comanded. |
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Paul said God has sent a Saviour, Jesus as he promised. Peter said God gave the Spirit with no distinction. No need for circumcision.
In athens Paul said, I proclaim the God who gives life to all- he will judge the world. Paul was warned not to go to Jerusalem he said I am ready to die. Paul is arrested at the temple. On malta Paul healed many diseases lived under house arrest and proclaimed the kingdom of God to all.
Notes: Acts doesnt end with Pauls death- he is still preaching. Promise of the second coming. TH pouring ou of power to the disciples- Pentacost . THe tongue of fire. Lots of communism among the believers. James sais pagans should not accept false idols. |
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| Paul, to the saints in Ephesus praises God who predestined us for adoption in Christ. When we were dead in sin God made us alive with Christ. Gentiles are fellow citizens built together into a temple. THe wisdom of God is made known through the church I pray that yoou may know the depth of his love. |
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8: The law of the Spirit has set you free. We are children of God and co-heirs with Christ nothing can seperate us from the love of God.
Each of us should build up our neaighbours. Christ confirmed the promises given to the patriarchs. I hope to see you as I go to Spain
Notes: Holy Spirit has the power of life. Paul talks oof a glorious destiny that can only be achieved through GOd;s suffering. Gentiles and Israelitsare reconciled together and the sign of it is the church- worship, eat and share life together.
Creation waits for deiverance from bondaege. |
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Christ was raised frpm the dead. If not then our faith is futile. But he is the firstfruits. At the trumpet we will all be changed.
Resurrection is the centre of the faith.
Baptised into Gods body the chuch. New creation. The resurrection body will be in one sense the same body that died, but alseo a new body |
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I saw one seated on the throne in heaven. The four living creatures say "Holy, holy, holy" The elders say, you created all things. A lamb standing as though slain took the scroll with seven seals. The creatures, elders and myriad angels sang " worthy is the Lamb. Satan was bound and the martyrs reigned with Christ for 1000 years. THen Satan was cast into the lake of fire. The dead were judged. I saw a ew heaven and a new earth. A voice sad God dwells with his people. An angel showed me the new Jerusalem. Its lamp is the lamb. THe river off life flows from the throne of God. Behol I am coming soon I am the beginning and the end. Amen, Come LOrd Jesus
Notes. THe goal of creation (symbolized by the four living creatures and the whole people of God(the 24 eldes)). THe goal and fulfilment of all creation is the worship of the trinity
22: New heaen and new eather. We do not go to heaven rather God comes down and dwells with us the ruler of thnation of eath bring all their cultural gifts to him, worship him and recieve healing from the tree. |
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Satan believes that he can give the nations because they are his to give.
Jesus task s to listen to god to be obedient and jst because he is the second adam. He gives birth to a new humanity |
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| Saul and Paul Temptations |
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| God changes saul to paul and he had no choice he is a slave to god and is given the job to go outto the nations. Saul is a god fearer- a gentile. Peter became hungry and faitned had a vision about animals being unclean however realisses there is no longer a need for seperation between the jews and gentiles. The barrier is broken. Anyone who fears god is accepted by go. Everyone gets the holy spirit and should be baptized. |
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| Questions about prophets, prophecy and the prophetic books and literary styl CGWB ch 6 |
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| Abraham, Moses Samuel, Nathan and Elijah. Jesus was prophezsized. isaiah, jeremiah, lamentations, ezekial and daniel. Prophetic books were written to explain why things turned out how they did for Israel. Points the reader forward to the New Testament. The minor prophets books frame how we should read parts of the old testament. Daniel especially prophesies of Jesus' return. The prophets focus on God's endgame- a new creation in which all the families of earth are blessed. Prophets provide a mode of living as faithful witnesses. |Soceties are evaluated by god according to their treatment of thie margilalized. Speaks in similes, propehcy is shared by a wide variety of literary jenres like judgemnt oracles, salavation oracles, laments, somgs, hymns and allegories calle narratives |
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| Jesus is te Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham, Jewish. Emmanuel God with us. God's reign among ISrael |
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| tooke control of the Judea at the time of a selucid empire. founded the hasmonean dynasty which increased judaism sometimes by forced conversion and decreased the influence of hellenism |
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THe 2nd temple's costruction in 6th century BCE to destruction in 70 C.Eperiod of Israel's story. Jeerusalem is under persia who defeated babylon and permitted the jews to move home and rebuild the temple. THen Alex the great took over israel, then the ptolemies, who granted them religious freedom. sacrificing, the sabbath, circumcision. THen it is banned on pain of death by the seleucids.
Maccabean revolt led which recaptured parts of jerusalem. Lots of trials as it turns its back on god. Herod reigns. Brutal and paranoid. Israel seperartted into three areas. P.P. orders jesus crucified at the behest of jews. many messaihs dont put down rome. romans plunder the temple jews rise upp, the 2nd temple is destroyed. Hellenism creates diversity |
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| Around the intertestamental time very conservative only Moses. mostly wealty aristorats actively involved in the temples. coopeerated with the romans more |
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| Violently take away israel from the romans |
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| jews woho dispersed live far from the temple. |
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| sect of jews wjo wihdrew from society and practice temple holiness in their communities. Increasingly life revolved around the synagogues where they would meet to read and debate the torah, to pray and to eat meals together. Pharisees oppose Jesus focused on rigid applicatin o the law to life |
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| Deuterocanonical or Apocrypha, dead sea scrolls |
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| the books wirtten during the intertestamental period, the hidden things. A diverse collection of tects written by the jew. provide a window into the history and theology of this period. help set the stafe or the new testament. |
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| Jerome, new latin translation of the bible. only hebrew texts not greek onesMartin Luther took em out because they suported catholic doctrines he found questionable.. |
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| Bel and the dragon. Similar literary genres and characters as in the old testament. You can see that they were read by some new testament athors. We learn god will be faithful to promises made and will bless the world through israel no matter their faults. Not a silent period. God prepares Israe for Jesus. exanding theological imagination and preparing for anew kind of people- jes and gentiles a like. God desires his people to bless he world. We see where they were forced under greek oppression and why they miht hate gentiles. Waited for the kind who helps he poor crushes the oppressr whose glory endures |
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| Political Mission of Jesus' CH 2 and 3 |
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| it is a theo-political even indicated by the responses of the wise men, herod and the people of Jerusalem, gods prophetic judgement in israel. Jesus confirmed to be God's messianic agent |
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| The temptation of Jesus Matt ch 4 |
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| Offer of mmediate and violent rise to power, i response Jesus detwemines to fully trust and obey the will of YHWH. He feeds the mutitudes eventually, enters Jerusalem and the temple and is exalted over heaven and earth. He does not deny the socio-political character of his mission. The zealot option seems to be somthing he must continuously resist. At the point of crucifixtion he must be fully identified as God's messianic agent. His politics are the politics of faithful obedience to God, self-giving love, non-violence, defeatin powers through suffering at their hands and trust in the vindication justice of God. |
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| Crucified esus is vindicated by gos |
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| He is God. Redefined identity of the god of Israel. He is now king of all nations |
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| Redefined polity Matt CH 4-5 |
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| Jesus anunces the reign of God, calls his disciples the 12, extends the blessing of the reign of God to the multitudes. A new polity is described which restores Israel ti a relationship with YHWH. Follow jesus= the new polity |
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| New messiah i given power likeJesus was and can expect mixed reception like Jesus did which requires costly obedience. THe new people must give up worldly expectations about the shape of gods reign. Other ways are temptations and should be rebuked. THe socio-political existence of the people of god among the natuos will, in faithfulness, take the same shaoe as Jesus in doing so be a presence amont the natuons |
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| THe redefined ppl will be both salt and light among the nations presenting the nations with criterio on ther own judegment beore the throne of Christ. Nations welcome and honour the faithful ppl of god= experience gods blessing. Good news for Israel is good news for the nations. Baptize is a concrete sign of gods rule and coming kingdom. |
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| goes into the desert afteer baptism 40 days in the desert fasting and preparing for his ministry. Asked to make stones bread. He replies with scripture. THrow yourself doen and prove you are the son of god replies dont put the lord your go to the test. He will be given the kingdoms of the world an their splendor- jesus sas worship the lord your god only. |
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| What do the temptations reveal? |
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| He is 100% human. humbled himself to be as one of us. denying himself and following the will of God. Cleansing and purifying himself. By following God he made the way so his people could now enter the promise land. His will was to reconcile God and man back togerh |
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| Why/ how did saul become paul |
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| Saul is a hebrew name, paul is a roman name more appealing to the gentiles. Encounter with Christ on the road to damasucs. A great light flashed around him and said saul why do you persecute me get uo and go into the ct and you will be told waht you must od |
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