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Exploring the Gospels: Understanding Their Historical Context and Interpretative Challenges

This study examines the Gospels within a university context, addressing common assumptions among Christians and non-Christians, and the challenge of open-mindedness when approaching texts created in a vastly different world. We'll explore the distinct features of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, analyze their interpretations of Jesus, and discuss issues related to authorship, dating, and genre. Additionally, we'll delve into the differences between reading the Bible as an act of worship versus academic analysis. Understanding these complexities enriches our comprehension of the Gospels' messages.

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Exploring the Gospels: Understanding Their Historical Context and Interpretative Challenges

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  1. Studying the Gospels in University • Common assumptions of Christians and Non-Christians. The difficulty of open mindedness • Created in a world profoundly different from our own world • Reading the Bible as act of worship is different from analysing it in classroom

  2. Problems with Study of Gospels • Written between about 70-100 • Translation from Aramaic to popular Greek (koine) • Proclamation of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John vs. their presentation of Jesus as usually relunctant to speak of himself in exalted terms

  3. Problems of Interpretation • Simplicity of Gospels is deceiving. • Questions about dating, authorship, and geographic location. • Each Gospel has disctinctive and facinating features. Each offers an INTERPRETATION of the life of Jesus. • Determining who the Historical Jesus is not as easy as it might seem.

  4. Motives of Gospel Writers • Beginning of Gospels and John 20:30-31 • Gospel (euangelion, “good news”), commonly denotes public proclamations about the Roman Emperor • Only literary genre invented by early Christians, history or biography? • Stanton: dual perspective of Gospel Writers

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