MIDEAST 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Idolatry
31 Oct 2018
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He thought he could prevent this by praying to a resurrected messiah. He preaches to jews about praying to jesus. Paul originally was going to jerusalem to persecute the followers of jesus. The greek monuments and statues affected paul a lot. The environment (idols) affected him a lot. He separated statues that were worshipped from statues that weren"t. Some statues of gods and goddesses were worshipped, and some weren"t. Allows for the interaction between paganism and jews. Idolatry appears for the first time in his writing. He spread his eschatological beliefs around athens. He spoke on the areopagus, a very important place near the acropolis. He tries to appeal to their religion/culture. He was trying to make judaism and jesus relevant to non-jews. Christianity is the blend of judaism, the belief in jesus, and graeco-roman. Paul"s first letter to followers was written in the 50"s. Christians didn"t eat kosher to make room for non-jews.
