Cultural Context Of The New Testament

Brittney Chow Professor Kinnison Bible 300 14 September 2017 “Analysis of Chapter 4 of Seven Events That Shaped the New Testament World” By the first century BCE, Rome has become a superpower amongst other empires. Rome has made it’s way to one of the top political, military, and economic powers. In 63 BCE, Rome takes control of Judea.

The Heart of the Old Testament is a book written by Ronald Youngblood. Youngblood wrote this book with a goal of showing people that the Old Testament is not any different from the New Testament, and should not be treated or believed any differently. Throughout the course of the book, Youngblood identifies the nine themes that form the foundation of the Old Testament. The nine themes include monotheism, sovereignty, election, covenant 1 and covenant 2, theocracy, law, sacrifice, faith, and redemption.

Wright makes the argument that what God promised to do for the Jewish people in the Old Testament is what Jesus thought he was accomplishing through his ministry. According to Jewish belief, God was to be the one and only king, and Jesus was spreading the word of his coming kingdom through himself. Jesus’ ministry was actually aligned more with the Roman belief of a divine ruler than with the Jewish belief of a Messiah. However, Jesus was unlike anyone before him, he was able to put together the suffering servant with the old testaments claims of God’s coming kingdom. He made the kingdom centered on the type of values that were considered weak in the Ancient world.

Bart D. Ehrman. The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings. New York: Oxford University Press, Fifth edition, 2012 SUMMARY The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings is an 536 page, illustrated, historical guide to early Christianity and many of the early writings of the time—not just those of the New Testament Canon. As the title boasts it is used as an introduction textbook for scholars studying the New Testament.

The heart of the Old Testament second edition is a book written by Ronald Youngblood. Robert Youngblood wrote this book with a goal of showing people that the Old Testament is not any different from the New Testament, and should not be treated as a separate entity. In the book, Youngblood identifies the nine themes that form the pillar of the Old Testament. He then discusses these nine themes of the Old Testaments with supporting scriptures from the New Testament. The nine themes include monotheism, covenant, law, sovereignty, theocracy, sacrifice, election, redemption and faith (Youngblood, 1998).

Jonathan, I agree with your statement we do tend to view the New Testament through the lens of our twenty-first-century culture. Even though we know that it's not the best way to interpret the New Testament we seem to get a better grasp from doing this. I like how you brought up the original authors of the New Testament and how they wrote through the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Yes, it is difficult to fit in someone else's shoes, but the Holy Spirit that existed when scripture was penned can lead, guide and direct our path today just as it did then. I would agree with you that the three methods that the authors bring forth are a great way to view the New Testament.

Ed Hindson and Gary Yates, editors of “Essence of the Old Testament: A Survey”, state, “The earthly reign of the Davidic monarch was a reflection of the Lord’s heavenly rule and the earthly instrument by which the Lord would exercise His sovereignty over the earth” (255). The purpose for these covenants was to put into motion the coming of the Messiah so that all of mankind can obtain

Cassidy McIntyre William Van Wyck World History 9H 20 March, 2018 Judaism Project Script Rough Draft Hi everyone, as you all may know, my name is Cassidy McIntyre and today I will be talking about anti - semitism against Jews and how this affected the Jewish culture and the future of Europe. Judaism was originally founded in 3500 BC in the Middle East by a man named Abraham. Abraham grew up in a family that idolized more than one god. According to Jewish texts “Abram rejected his father’s religion from an early age and argued that the universe was the work of a single creator” (Pentateuch). Abraham was the first person to teach about the concept of there being a “one and only God”.

The author Ronald Youngblood observed the preface of the Old Treatment in the book, The Heart of the Old Testament by demonstrating the basic outline of the Scriptures is to trace the development of certain key ideas from one end of the Bible to the other. This book serves a great purpose that lays out nine themes that constitute the heart of the Old Testament. The nine themes are monotheism, sovereignty, election, covenant, theocracy, law, sacrifice, faith, and redemption. Dr. Ron Youngblood has achieved his purpose in an admirable layout before us the heart of the Old Testament in a careful and practical manner. Dr. Youngblood links the key theological strands of the Old Testament to the New in a style that is biblically sound, highly readable,

A rumor has spread that an incipient preacher is in town. Individuals who had aurally perceived him preach verbalize he verbalizes with divine puissance. An abundance of people verbalize he is the messiah, the long-awaited savior who would liberate the Israelites and recuperate tranquility to the land. Others verbally express he is a ficticiously unauthentic. Many do not ken how to react.

The first point that Hebrews exhibit all features of a civilization is after their Exodus from Egypt and rise in Jerusalem, in my opinion. Although the Hebrews did live in tribes and show pieces of civilizations beforehand, they had adopted aspects of the Mesopotamian civilization and did not fit into all categories for a civilization. The Hebrews needed to exhibit several things, on their own, and those things are: a writing system, complex government, job specialization, complex religion, art and architecture, rise in cities, public works, and finally social classes. To start, Moses helped them with religion and transformed them into a nation in the early 13th century, as well as, helped them believe in Yahweh, the one god. After Moses, the Hebrews had their first king, Saul, which can be assumed that at this point they had a complex government.

The Bible needs to be read in the same fashion as any other book—beginning to end. When you start anywhere else, you lack the context to understand the coherence of the various historical anecdotes in the Bible as well as the overarching theme of the Bible. Although the Bible has sixty-books written by approximately forty authors in a span of over 2,000 years (Roberts, 2002, p. 14), the Old Testament has remained 95% accurate, and the New Testament has remained 97% accurate (Stokes & Lewis). Subsequently, while reading the Bible exactly as you would any other book is extremely important, so is knowing the historical context and authors of any specific book in the Bible. Again, just like any other book, being written from a certain perspective

The Old Testament is a compilation of books that allegedly were written by the Jews regarding their God, creation, and their heritage (Tullock, & McEntire, 2012). Additionally, there are numerous authors associated with the Old Testament that compiled these texts between “1200 B.C.E [to] 200 B.C.E.” (Wilcox, 2014, 3:39) providing differing tones and style to these scripts. Although while it was being compiled these stories relied heavily on word of mouth eventually, they gained wide-ranging recognition (Tullock, & McEntire, 2012). So, in turn, these scriptures began to be referred to as the “Old Testament.” Around the end of “70 C.E.” (Tullock, & McEntire, 2012, pg. 2) text written by the apostles and followers of Jesus were being viewed

Based on Chapter 6 one way the Old Testament story is connected to the New Testament story is the belief that God will be the king of the world again but the coming of Jesus Christ. A recurrent theme in the Old Testament is Israel’s exile and restoration, going away from God and coming back to follow him. The Israelites often turned away from God and worshipped other Gods and when that did not work out for them and things started to go bad in the world they cried out to the Lord. Every time the Israelites cried out to the Lord to save them he did but the people also had to endure suffering and punishment for what they did. The connection according to Wright, is in the belief of the Israelites that the “monsters” who have attacked God’s people

There are many different cultural groups of people that I learned about through my studies of the New Testament. The different groups are the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Essenes, the Zealots, the Scribes, the Samaritans, and the Herodians. I’ve learned many things about all these different groups and all about their culture. The pharisees are known as the separated ones.