EVIDENCE FOR THE GOSPELS Christ Church 19th January 2014
BIBLE SCEPTICS Retold Stories Propoganda Made Up / Fairy Tales Written so long after the events they can t be real, never mind accurate. It makes them feel better but not for me, I m too clever to believe that stuff!
IT S IN THE CLUES! Information from Non-Christian sources Information from the Gospels
NON-CHRISTIAN SOURCES TACITUS PLINNY JOSEPHUS
TACITUS - AD 64 Roman Historian AD 64 - Annals 15.44 A fire started by Nero in Rome Nero required a group to blame Nero who substituted as culprits a class of men, loathed for their vices, whom the crowd called Christian
TACITUS Christus, the founder of the name, had undergone the death penalty in the reign of Tiberius (14-37 AD) by sentence of the procurator Pontius Pilate
PLINY - AD111 Pliny the Younger, AD 111, Letters 10.96 (Governor of Northern Turkey Region) they had been accustomed to meet on a fixed day before dawn and to sing antiphonally a song to Christ as to a God, and to bind themselves by an oath not to some crime, but rather not to commit theft, robbery, or adultery, not to break their trust, and not refuse to return a pledge when asked to do so
JOSEPHUS - ANTIQUITIES 20.200 AD 61 - JERUSALEM Power vacuum with no Governor of Judea He (Ananus - Jewish High Priest) - assembled the Sanhedrin of judges, and brought before it the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, whose name was James, and some others; and when he had made an accusation against them as breakers of the law, he handed them over to be stoned.
WHERE WERE THE NT GOSPELS WRITTEN? Matthew Syria Mark Syria? Luke Rome? John Palestine- Syria Then Asia- Minor Group Effort? * Gerd Theissen scholar. Professor of New Testament Theology at the University of Heidelberg
Geography - Explain the journey from the airport. GROUP EXERCISE ZAMBIA Architecture - Explain the layout and type of buildings. Personal Names - Tell me some names of people you met.
Geography - Explain the journey from the airport. GROUP EXERCISE ZAMBIA Architecture - Explain the layout and type of buildings. Personal Names - Tell me some names of people you met.
NT - KNOWLEDGE OF TIME AND SPACE Agriculture Architecture Botany Culture Economics Geography Language Law Personal Names Politics Religion Social Stratification Topography Weather
JEWISH PERSONAL NAMES Based on study of 3000 names Jewish names in Palestine show different frequency from names elsewhere Gospels/Acts probably written outside Palestine Yet reflect naming patterns in Palestine
JEWISH NAMES IN ISRAEL/EGYPT Rank in Israel Rank in Egypt 1. Simon/Simeon 1. Eleazar 2. Joseph/Joses 2. Sabbataius 3. Lazarus/Eleazar 3. Joseph 4. Judas/Judah 4. Dositheus/Pappus 5. John/Yohanan 5. Ptolemaius 6. Jesus/Joshua 6. Samuel
% TOP JEWISH NAMES Israel Gospel/Acts Top 2 men s: Simon and Joseph 15.6% 18.2% Top 9 men s names 41.5% 40.3% Top 2 women s: Mary and Salome 28.6% 38.9% Top 9 Women s 49.7% 61.1%
SIMON WHO? THE NEED TO DISAMBIGUATE Simon??? Mary??? Simon-Peter Mary the mother of Jesus Simon the Zealot Mary Magdaline Simon the leper Simon of Cyrene Mary the mother of James and Joseph Simon the Tanner
THAT BLOKE JESUS!
PARABLE OF THE 5000
PARABLE OF THE 5000
PARABLE OF THE 5000
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THE ONE YOU READ THE MOST!