New Testament Reflection Paper

Elizabeth Stahrr

Maryann Sheridan

TH 102: Introduction to The New Testament

12 October 2017 .

Lesson 1: How do you understand the fact that in reading the Bible, one must be aware of numerous differences in the literature, the historical time, and the expectations of the reader in the twenty-first century?

To be able to understand the Bible it is important to have a clear understanding of the life of Jesus, because it is centered around how He lived His life. Jesus who was a Jew, embodied the values, morals and practices of the Jewish social, political and religious environment. The Bible’s content center’s around Jesus’s life and we need travel back in time to when Jesus walked the earth to understand the political, social, and religious environment of that era.

We also must steer away from Anochronism and Entocentrism because both can cause a misunderstanding ofwhat we read in the

The intertestamental time of Jewish history, which went before the life of Jesus, profoundly affected the way the Jews saw and honed their religion. The successes of Alexander the Great had Hellenised the known world, and, all things considered, homogenized old society. This was additionally exacerbated by the approach of the Roman Empire and its organizations. The diaspora of the Jewish individuals, which had removed them from their customary Temple love, had made them grow new methods of love revolved around the Synagogue. Living in a Gentile society likewise made them assimilate a considerable lot of its thoughts and traditions. The control of Palestine, and the misery this incited, likewise gave rise, to progressive developments, as well as these, thus, brought forth new religious groups, for example, the Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes and