NT211 Introducing the Gospels and Acts: Their Background, Nature, and Purpose
Overview
Study the key events of the Gospels and the book of Acts with prolific New Testament scholar Dr. Darrell L. Bock. Dr. Bock walks you through the pivotal events of history that shaped the social, religious, and political environment of Jesus and the early church. Find out why the religious leaders wanted Jesus crucified and how the resurrection demonstrated God’s approval of Jesus as Messiah. Discover how the early church remembered, shared, and recorded the events of Jesus’ life, and how those events became the catalyst for ministry in the book of Acts. Learn about the literary features of the gospel genre and why some “gospels” where not included in the New Testament. Dr. Bock—an internationally recognized authority on theology and culture—developed this course for the Mobile Education platform so that you can read the Gospels and Acts with fresh eyes.
Top Highlights
“The phrase I actually like to use for backgrounds is ‘cultural scripts.’ Cultural scripts are things that the reader and the writer share because they share the culture, which means a lot doesn’t have to be explained in order for them to get it.” (source)
“Well, the Bible is loaded with cultural scripts that are informed by the background that contributes to them, and the more you understand the cultural scripts and the culture of the nt, the more you’ll understand what’s going on with the passages.” (source)
“Hellenization was the moving [of] the world in the direction of Graeco-Roman culture and of Greek practices in particular.” (source)
“What Jesus does is to show that the battle is not a political battle with Rome but rather that the battle is a larger battle with Satan and with spiritual forces—with forces that oppress humanity, not in a social way so much, although it manifests itself sometimes socially, but ultimately from the human heart itself.” (source)
“It produces a model for the antichrist—the one who marches into the temple, desecrates God, and asks God’s people to do that which is opposite of what God requires. Antiochus Epiphanes becomes the model in Scripture for what the world will do when it’s allowed to encroach on the practices that God has commanded, and he becomes the prototype figure for what becomes the antichrist in the nt.” (source)
- Title: NT211 Introducing the Gospels and Acts: Their Background, Nature, and Purpose
- Author: Darrell L. Bock
- Series: Logos Mobile Education
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Courseware
- Subjects: Bible. N.T. Gospels › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Education › Bible. N.T. Gospels--Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible. N.T. Acts › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Education › Bible. N.T. Acts--Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Resource ID: LLS:NT211BOCK
- Resource Type: Courseware Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T04:49:10Z
Dr. Darrell L. Bock, research professor of New Testament studies and professor of spiritual development and culture at Dallas Theological Seminary, serves as editor-at-large forChristianity Today, and is on the board of Chosen People Ministries and Wheaton College. From 2000 to 2001, Dr. Bock served as president of the Evangelical Theological Society.
He has earned international recognition as a Humboldt Scholar for his work in Luke-Acts, historical Jesus study, biblical theology, as well as with messianic Jewish ministries. He has published articles in the Los Angeles Times and The Dallas Morning News and is a well-known author of over 30 books. His publications include Studying the Historical Jesus: A Guide to Sources and Methods,Jesus According to Scripture, an NIV Application Commentary on Luke, Breaking the Da Vinci Code, and commentaries on Acts and Luke in the Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament (BECNT) series.