CCA has an assembly with Dr. Ben Whittington(name? sp? sorry setting up sound during the introduction) speaking about first century Jewish culture. I’m sitting in because I can. Yes, I have plenty of real work to do, but hey, carpe diem.
- It’s all about the southern accent
- dyadic personality – I just learned a new phrase.
- honor and shame – more important to avoid shame than anything else: he mentions oriental cultures, but it was huge in Uganda too. The point: Jesus being crucified should have shamed Christianity into the ground.
- The way things worked: patronage – it’s all about who you know. 2% of the people in Jesus’ world owned 98% of the property. You had to know the rich people to get ahead. Gosh, I love America.
- Patriarchy – Jesus was way ahead of his time with letting women be disciples.
- Jesus was in the 10% of his society that could read.
- Collectivist society – buncha commies. Conformity to society was paramount.
- Lystra is pronounced Luhstra, not Listra: now you know
- Paul and Barnabas being mistaken for Zeus and Hermes – impossible to understand without context, Ovid’s Metamorphoses story of Zeus and Hermes coming to visit. Lycanians didn’t speak Greek. Paul and Barnabas publicly shamed the priest by stopping the offering (hospitality). Hence the stoning.
- A text without context is a pretext for whatever you want it to mean-text.
- a guy with a southern accent doing a british accent – priceless
- 2 Peter – composite document – like a anthology
- Matthew composited from Mark. IP wasn’t such a big deal then.
- The further we get from Jesus’ time, the more God reveals to us through found texts. – Interesting thought.
- lay-odd-oseans
- perspicuously: I learned two things today
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