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35 Cards in this Set
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Lukan "errors" in Acts
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- Quirinius chronology (Gal 1 vs Acts 9,11,15)
-Pepe Rodriguez- contradictions (ex: birth in 4/5AD in Matthew and 6/7BC in Luke) - Jesus Seminar: gospels assumed to be narratives with memory of Christ embellished |
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WML de Wette (1780-1849)
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- wrote 1700 years after book was written
- first major scholar to challenge historicity of Acts |
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FC Baur
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Jewish (Petrine) party vs Gentile (Pauline) party
- these parties write scripture trying to prove they're right - claims to Acts was written by Gentiles - early Catholicism |
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Albert Schwegler (1819-1857)
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- Acts written 120-130 AD (approximately 90-100 years later)
- Acts is inaccurate because all the eye witnesses were gone - if its not accurate, why was it written? was it about the 2nd century church, not the early church? |
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Edward Zeller (1814-1908)
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miracles aren't possible
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Martin Dibeluis (1883-1947)
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- speeches of Acts are fictional (literary imagination of author)
- diary: provided basic framework for Paul's missionary journey - said it was someone else's travel diary and applied it to Paul |
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Ernst Haenchen
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"Commentary on Acts" (1955)
- took all this stuff and put it in his commentary |
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Matthias Schneckenburger (1803-1848)
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studied under Baur, but disagreed
- thought Luke was eyewitness - Luke wrote before 70 |
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Albert Ritschl (1822-1889)
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-studied under Baur and held his views
-started studying Acts and concluded Baur was wrong |
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James Smith: Voyage and Shipwreck of St Paul (1848)
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-expert yachtsman
-emulated Paul's journey and said voyage was account of real events written by eyewitness |
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JB Lightfoot (1818-1889)
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-destroyed Baur's hypothesis
-work on apostolic fathers showed there was no division in early church |
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Sir William Ramsay (1851-1939)
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-archaeologist, expert in Asia Minor
-accepted Baur's views, didn't want to study evidence of Asia Minor in Acts because he assumed there'd be no historical value -while reading Acts he found that Luke was accurate in his descriptions of Asia Minor -"a write who proves to be exact and correct in one point will show the qualities of the matter" |
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FF Bruce
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-memorized Bible in Hebrew and Greek
-leader of evangelicalism -wrote 2 commentaries on Acts and defended Luke's accuracy on all points |
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AN Sherwin-White
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rejecting Acts is absurd
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Colin Hemer: The Book of Acts in the Setting of the Hellenistic History (1989)
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-compared it verse by verse to Greek History
-concluded it was trustworthy because of the intricate details |
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Brook Pearson and the accuracy of Luke
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-Herod's tax system was not possible without exact censuses
-In Herod's last will, he gave a detailed summary of his kingdom's wealth -a Greek term (town scribe) appeared in more than 200 papyri - dealt with stats, property, and taxes - more evidence for Egyptian censuses than in Israel. In Egypt, there were 6 in 23 years around the time of Jesus' birth |
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Quirinius was governor?
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-translated as leader, commander, ruler - have we mistranslated?
- Ramsay things Q was leader of army - if its translated like this, all the problems of Q leading go away - "first": first of several, first, earliest, earlier, most important - no way to prove its an error because no one writes "there was no census the year Jesus was born" - conclusion of Luke 2:2 |
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apocalyptic genre
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revelatory literature with narrative framework, in which revelation is mediated by another worldly being to a human, disclosing transcendent reality in which is both temporal in so far as it envisages eschatological salvation
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characteristics of the apocalyptic genre
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-reveals something
-angelic mediation -discourse cycles -ethical discourse -esoteric symbolism -recital of history: tells about something occurring in past, telling it a different way -pseudonymous - false names, written by someone who didn't really write them |
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most common themes of apocalyptic genre
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-pessimism toward current age
-promise of restoration -transcendental reality -determinism -modified dualism (good v evil, but good wins) |
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4 views for interpreting Revelation
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-preterist interpretation
-historical view -symbolic method -futuristic view |
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preterist interpretation
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Jewish apocalyptic literature written to a 1st century church in crisis to given them hope
-not interpreted literally -written to persecuted Christians -most popular scholarly choice -relates to 1st century audience |
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evidence for the preterist interpretation
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-not everything is literal like in John
-Rev 1:1-3, 22:6,10 - has key to interpretations -main point of book: Revelation 1:7 - he is coming in the clouds |
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preterist interpretation of the beast-8 (Nero/Roman empire)
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1 time is in present for audience of book
2 beast has authority (13:2) and power (13:4) 3 comes out of sea 4 speaks words of blasphemy and requires worship 5 letters of name Nero Caesar add up to 666 6 belief of Nero Redivivus - he'd die but come back to life 7 17:9-10 - 7 heads, 7 hills, 7 kings 8 the persecution of the beast will last 42 months (13:5-7) |
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historical view
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Revelation is prophecy of the history of the church
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symbolic method
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- Revelation is symbolic, good vs. evil. Written to 7 fictitious churches, representing everyone
- problem: symbolic in apocalyptic literature actually stands for real things - beast (666)= incompletion, bad, evil (7 is whole, 6 is not) - the millennium: number 1000 symbolizes a long time |
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futuristic view
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-most important group following this view is dispensationalists
- since this group is pre-millennial, they have a pessimistic view of history and things keep getting worse |
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classical dispensationalism
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- 1:3, 22:7,10,18,19 - prophecy
- 1:7 is key verse to understand the theme of the book - coming in the clouds - it's clear that this view sees a future for ethnic Israel int he future: the 144k, the temple, chapter 11, etc, are taken literally - the beast: future anti-Christ, a person with a nation/empire behind him |
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progressive dispensationalism
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-events typologically point forward to what will happen in the end
-Rev 1:19- write what you've seen, what's now, and what will take place -the judgments (seals 6, trumpets 8-9, bowls 15-16) are sequential not cyclical -the 7 churches refer to 1st century but continue in history til Parusia -the beast: Nero and future anti-Christ -Revelation 19-21 is not fulfilled in 1st century because it's actually talking about tend times |
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theology of Revelation
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- problem of evil
- the coming wrath→ 16:8-11: but they refused to repent and glorify God - coming of the kingdom: judgment of evil, coming of a new kingdom |
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application to the story of the Prodigal son
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-the father forgives and restores us
-the father takes away our shame -the father celebrates when we return |
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Luther
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-compared Jews (works) to Christians (faith and gospel)
-read legalism into Paul |
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Stendahl
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"Paul and the Introspective Conscience of the West"
- didn't have a problem of conscience and not fighting against legalism -wanted to include Gentiles |
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Sanders
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-set out to destroy the view that Judaism of the 1st century was a legalistic religion compared to Christianity
-examined many genres of documents and thought 1st century Judaism of the 1st century was a non-legalistic religion- covenantal nomism (faith maintained by the law) |
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Dunn
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"New Perspective on Paul"
-Gentiles are included in the New Covenant |
