The Gospel of Luke, just as we’ve seen in the Gospel of Matthew, is a unique and completely redesigned reconstruction of the Markan Gospel. Luke follows the basic Markan Gospel story, but makes many changes, additions, and subtractions in order to create a very uniquely Lukan Gospel. Luke is only made up only half Markan… Continue reading →
The birth narrative that we find in the book of Matthew is very elaborate and specific, but much of the narrative is unique to only Matthew. One unique detail of Matthew is the genealogy found at the beginning of the birth narrative. This genealogy is unique in that it contains both women and non-Jews, whereas,… Continue reading →
According to White, the notion of divine kingship entered the Greek culture after the death of Alexander the Great in 342 BCE. The Egyptians long before had looked at their kings as gods, and when Alexander the Great conquered his way into the land of Egypt, he took on the idea of the Egyptians and… Continue reading →
