RELS 218 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Elaine Pagels, Docetism, Mustard Seed
27 Jan 2018
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The nt opens with john the baptist, a mysterious gure living in the wilderness baptizing people and calling them to repent. The prophetic tradition john as the last ot prophet. Jesus is baptized by john, then goes out into the wilderness for 40 days. Israel is not exiled in a foreign country, but oppressed under the romans. Jewish expectation a messiah who will restore the temple and the land of israel, and bring about an era of peace. In other words, marcion wanted to discard the ot as it had been superseded by the. In response, the church began to re ect on both its use of the ot and the need for document control. Were there other versions of christianity that were lost or suppressed in the rst. The jesus of history vs the christ of faith . Israel (speci cally judea, former hasmonean area) is under roman jurisdiction. Three major religious groups: the pharisees, the sadducees, the essenes.
