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While it has been traditional to understand the author of Luke as a Gentile, recent scholarship has focused on the Gospel as a Jewish text. But even if the author of Luke is Jewish, his advocacy for Jesus as the Messiah and the fulfillment of Jewish scriptures is paired with hostile words directed against other Jewish groups who do not accept Jesus on these terms.Therefore, in this course we will consider the Gospel of Luke within both Early Judaism and Anti-Judaism. We will underscore Jewish scriptures, practices, and beliefs that appear well known to this author, and that help to clarify key passages in Luke. We will also attempt to come to terms with the anti-Jewish potential of this gospel, developing strategies for recognizing and diffusing these polemics.
Possible Excursions: Temple Mount; Church of the Holy Sepulchre; Mount of Olives; Bethlehem; Sea of Galilee; Migdal; Capernaum; Mt. of Beatitudes; Sepphoris; Caesarea; Qumran National Park; Herod’s Tomb; Masada
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Shelly Matthews is a professor of New Testament and Director for the Carpenter Center of Gender, Sexuality and Justice at the Brite Divinity School, Fort Worth, Texas. Among her recent scholarship is a two-volume commentary on Luke, co-authored with Barbara E Reid, OP, for the Wisdom Commentary Series, Liturgical Press. She has also authored several books and articles on Acts, Luke, 1 Corinthians, and feminist biblical interpretation,and is currently finishing a book on early Christian resurrection. She is an ordained United Methodist minister who works frequently in ecumenical settings, including a lectureship at the Jerusalem Year study program of the Dormition Abbey at Mount Zion, Jerusalem in 2019; and several residencies at the Collegeville Institute at St. John's Abbey and University in Collegeville, MN.
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