- Identification of Luke
o Ethnicity
o Author of
o Occupation
o Hobby
- Luke & St. Paul – Relationship
- Eusebius
- Antioch, Greece
- Three Schools of Christian Thought:
o Jerusalem
o Rome
o Alexandria, Egypt
** What is the importance of these three cities?
- Who did Luke write for?
- What different titles does Luke use for words?
- 35% of Mark: In Luke
- Dating of Luke
o Raymond Brown’s dating of Luke (85)
- KNOW: The Prologue
o What’s the message?
o What does it show concern for?
o Who is it written to? What does the name mean?
o Where else is this name found?
- Luke: Concern for historical detail
- Jerusalem: focus as a symbolic center
- Luke & Salvation History – 3 Periods
- Luke: “Historian of the Church”
- The story and significance of Simeon and Anna
- Luke 1:5 – 45, 56:
o Recollection of Abraham and Sara: through Zechariah and Elizabeth
o Gabriel
o Annunciation
** What structure does Luke use that is very similar here? It has a particular name...
- Jesus’ birth – 2 fold
o Israel
o ‘unique Son of God’
ß Mary as a virgin
- John the Baptist’s conception – relationship to which O.T. prophet?
- The Magnificat
o Luke 1:46-55
**Be able to identify it…
o As prayer
o As Jewish hymn
o Christological significance
o Who speaks it?
**When this character speaks it, what Christological statement is she making? What historical reference/statement is she making? Why is this significant? What role does this play in relationship to Luke's audience?
o Significance to liberation theology
- John the Baptist’s birth & naming
- Jesus birth:
o What was “taking place” according to Luke?
o Bethlehem
o Presence of shepherds: parallel to Matthew’s magi – both depart (why significant?)
o Mary – Jesus: birth to death
o Simeon and Anna
o Jesus is not contradictory to that of the Messianic Expectation
- Boy Jesus in the Temple
o Luke’s placing between infancy narrative & public life
o Christological Sequence
o 3 things mentioned…
Be able to answer the following questions:
1. Identify the presence of God (in true form, the son, and the H.S.) from Luke 1 to the end of Jesus as a 12-year-old boy. Identify three instances with chapter and verse and name the significance of one.
2. Identify Mary and her relationship with Jesus. Who or what convinces her to accept God as the father of her child? What happens to her? What happens to Joseph?
3. Explain the significance of Luke’s census. Is it historically accurate? Why or why not? What is Luke employing when illustrating this census? What significance did it have for his community?
