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Introduction
© John Stevenson, 2011
Dr. John T. Stevenson
• Family Life
• Academic Life
Dr. John T. Stevenson
• Family Life
• Academic Life
• Professional Life
Dr. John T. Stevenson
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Family Life
Academic Life
Professional Life
Spiritual Life
Ministry Life
Dr. John T. Stevenson
http://JohnStevenson.net
[email protected]
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Group Introductions
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Your name
Your home church
Where are you in the TIU process?
What classes have you already
taken in the area of the Old or New
Testament?
Course Objectives
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To see Jesus in the light of the “Older
Testament” and in the context of Second
Temple Judaism.
To understand the pre-incarnate Christ.
To identify the specific emphasis of each
of the four Gospels.
To describe the major geographical
locations of the ministry of Jesus.
To identify the major episodes of Jesus’
ministry and teaching
Wayne H. House
Chronological and
Background
Charts of the New
Testament.
Grand Rapids:
Zondervan, 2008
Robert Stein
Jesus the
Messiah:
A Survey of the
Life of Christ.
Downers Grove:
InterVarsity, 1996
Lee Strobel
The Case for
Christ.
Grand Rapids:
Zondervan, 1998
(Changed from the Syllabus)
• Class Participation:
• Worksheets & reading:
• ALP:
10%
50%
40%
Applied Learning Paper
Suggested topics
• How we are to Imitate Christ
• A Response to the Various Views of
Jesus
• The Parables of Jesus as Teaching Tools
• A Doctrinal Statement about the Person
and Work of Jesus
• Examination of Jesus’ methods as
counselor, teacher, or preacher
Jezreel
Sown By God
Sea of
Galilee
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Megiddo
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Nazareth
Separating the
Wheat from the Tares
Sea of
Galilee
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Tiberias
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Megiddo
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Nazareth
Capernaum ●
Sea of
Galilee
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Tiberias
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Megiddo
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Nazareth
Capernaum ●
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Tiberias
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Nazareth
Caesarea
Philippi
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Laish
(Dan)
Capernaum ●
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Tiberias
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Nazareth
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The City of God
Caesarea ●
Joppa ●
(Modern Tel Aviv)
Jerusalem
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Now there is in
Jerusalem by the
sheep gate a pool,
which is called in
Hebrew Bethesda,
having five
porticoes (John
5:2)
In these lay a
multitude of those
who were sick, blind,
lame, and withered
(John 5:3)
And a certain man was
there, who had been
thirty-eight years in his
sickness. 6 When Jesus
saw him lying there, and
knew that he had
already been a long
time in that condition,
He said to him, "Do you
wish to get well?" (John
5:5-6)
The sick man answered Him,
"Sir, I have no man to put me
into the pool when the water
is stirred up, but while I am
coming, another steps down
before me." (John 5:7)
Old
Testament
World
New
Testament
World
• Different geographical
regions
• Different languages
• Different national
invaders
• Different types of
literature
400 BC
5 BC?
Old
Testament
completed
Birth of
Jesus
Malachi?
Amos
400 Silent Years
400 BC
Old
Testament
completed
331 BC
5 BC?
Alexander
conquers
the Persian
Empire
Birth of
Jesus
Malachi?
Alexander
the Great
Persian Empire
Amos
Alexander
the Great of
Macedonia,
332 B.C.
Tyre 
• Fall of Tyre
on July 29.
332 B.C.
• Seven
month
siege
And when the book
of Daniel was showed
him, wherein Daniel
declared that one of the
Greeks should destroy the
empire of the Persians, he
supposed that himself was
the person intended; and
he was then glad.
(Antiquities 11:8:5).
• Cultural interchange
from east to west
• Scientific learning
• Hellenization
• Greek language
• Alexander’s death
Cassander
Lysimachus
Antigonus
the one-eyed
Seleucus
Ptolemy
Ptolemy II Philadelphus
• Pharos Lighthouse
• Library of Alexandria
• Septuagint
• War with the Seleucids
Antiochus III
“the Great”
Ptolemy
Antiochus IV Epiphanes
• Hostage in Rome
• Escape
• Campaign against Egypt
Antiochus IV Epiphanes
• Hostage in Rome
• Escape
• Campaign against Egypt
• First revolt in Judah
Antiochus imposed the following
Regulations
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Jews could not assemble for prayer
Observance of the Sabbath was forbidden
Possession of the Scriptures was illegal
Circumcision was illegal
Dietary laws illegal
Pagan sacrifices mandated
Antiochus IV
•Maccabean Revolt
•167 B.C.
•Mattathias
•Temple liberated
400 BC
Old
Testament
completed
331 BC
Alexander
conquers
the Persian
Empire
Malachi?
Alexander
the Great
Persian Empire
167 BC
Maccabbee
Rebellion
5 BC?
Birth of
Jesus
Amos
Hasmonean
kings
Hellenistic Kings
• Ptolemies
• Seleucids
Rome
Mattathias
Johanan
Simon
Judas
Eleazer
Jonathan
• Simon becomes new leader
• Judah recognized as a free state: 142
B.C.
• High Priest
Mattathias
Johanan
Simon
Judah
John
Hyrcanus
Judas
Eleazer
Jonathan
Mattathias
• John Hyrcanus becomes leader
• Samaria, Galilee & Idumea conquered
• Forced conversions of conquered
peoples
Two New Jewish Parties
• Hasidim: “The Pious Ones”
– Pharisees
• Hellenists: Greek influence
– Sadducees
Mattathias
Johanan
Simon
Judah
John
Hyrcanus
Aristobulus
Judas
Jonathan
Mattathias
Salome
Alexandria
Hyrcanus II
Eleazer
Alexander
Janneus
Aristobulus II
• Commissioned to
clear the seas of
piracy
• Conquests in Syria
• Conquest of
Jerusalem
• Territorial
arrangements
Roman
Civil
War
Antipater
as
Procurator
Herod
Phasael
Parthians

Petra
Marc Antony
Octavius
Herod the Great
40 - 4 B.C.
Zerubbabel’s
Temple
Seleucid
Addition
Hasmonean
Herod’s Temple
Expansion
Caesarea
Herod’s Domestic Troubles
It is better to be Herod’s uV
Than to be Herod’s uioV
400 BC
Old
Testament
completed
331 BC
Alexander
conquers
the Persian
Empire
Malachi?
167 BC
4 BC
Maccabbee
Rebellion
Death of
Herod the
Great
Amos
Pompey
the Great
Alexander
the Great
Persian Empire
Hasmonean
kings
Hellenistic Kings
• Ptolemies
• Seleucids
Rome
Sadducees
Pharisees
Essenes
Zealots
• Jesus
• Christ
• Lord
• Son of Man
• Immanuel
What do the following authors tell
their readers about Jesus?
Isaiah
John
Paul
(Isaiah
7:14; 9:1-7;
11:1-4;
53:1-12).
(John 1:118; 5:16-18;
8:56-58).
(Rom 1:1-5;
2 Cor 8:9;
Phil 2:5-11).