NT156 Understanding Easter: The Significance of the Resurrection
NT202 A Survey of Jewish History and Literature from the Second Temple Period
NT211 Introducing the Gospels and Acts: Their Background, Nature, and Purpose
NT221 The Wisdom of John: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on Johannine Literature
NT222 Introducing the Epistles and Revelation: Their Setting and Message
NT301 The Gospels as Ancient Biography: A Theological and Historical Perspective
NT314 Book Study: The Gospel of Matthew in Its Jewish Context
NT332 A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary on Paul’s Letter to the Romans
NT340 Book Study: Paul’s Letter to the Galatians: The Gospel for Jew and Gentile
NT348 Book Study: Paul’s Letters to the Colossians and Philemon
NT364 Book Study: James
NT390 Jesus as Rabbi: The Jewish Context of the Life of Jesus
NT395 Perspectives on Paul: Reformation and the New Perspective
Join Dr. David deSilva as he describes important cultural concepts from the first century and shows how these concepts shed light on the New Testament. Learn why the author of 1 Peter spoke to the shame Christians were experiencing, and what cultural norms they had to fight against as they sought to follow Christ. Discover how grace and gratitude were viewed differently than they are today. Learn what purity meant for Jews, how patronage and reciprocity impacted everyday decisions, how families and households operated, and more. Dr. deSilva pulls from a variety of sources to explain these concepts and uses the books of Hebrews and 1 Peter to illustrate them.
This course will give you a better understanding of the environment early Christians were in as they broke the rules of society for the sake of the gospel.
Understand cultural elements present in the first century that drive meaning of New Testament texts
Avoid misinterpretation of potentially foreign cultural elements
Relate ancient Jewish and Hellenistic culture to modern settings
Introducing the Speaker and the Course
Introduction to Culture
Honor, Shame, and Social Control
Honor and Shame in Complex Cultures
Competing for Honor
The Experience of Shame
Consider the Source
Who’s on Trial Here?
Reinterpreting Experiences of Shame (Part 1)
Reinterpreting Experiences of Shame (Part 2)
Defending Your Honor
Using a Historical Background Collection
Honored in God’s Sight
The Social Matrix of Perseverance
Embodying 1 Peter
Patrons, Clients, and Brokers
The Social Context of Grace
Running a Louw-Nida Search on Charis
Graceful Giving
Graceful Receiving and Expression of Gratitude
An Example from the Life of Jesus
God as Patron
Jesus as Patron and Mediator
The Letter to the Hebrews and Its Audience
Summons to Grateful Response
Warnings against Ingratitude (Part 1)
Warnings against Ingratitude (Part 2)
Cultural Awareness and Solving Theological Problems
Establishing Kinship
Kinship Ethics
The Household of the Classical World
Women in the Household
Studying Sirach on the Silent Wife
Children
Analyzing Parentage and Honor (John 8:31–41)
Slaves
Reconfiguring Kinship
Searching for the Cultural Concept of Kinship
New Birth into a New Family
Ethical Implications of the New Birth
Advice for Christians in Natural Households: Wives
Advice for Christians in Natural Households: Husbands
Advice for Christians in Natural Households: Slaves
Basic Concepts
Clean, Unclean, Common, and Holy
Early Judaism’s Purity Maps (Part 1)
Investigating Herod's Temple
Early Judaism’s Purity Maps (Part 2)
What Makes Purity Codes Meaningful?
Levels of Concern for Purity
Purity Regulations in a Pauline Church
Purity and New Group Boundaries
Rewriting Maps of Sacred Space and Personnel
Jesus’ Death as Consecration
Reexamining Purity Lines Today
Building a Sermon on Defilement (Mark 7:20–23)
Authentic Hearing, Authentic Following
Title: NT201 The Cultural World of the New Testament
Instructor: David A. deSilva
Publisher: Lexham Press
Publication Date: 2015
Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources
Courses: 1
Video Hours: 6
Dr. David A. deSilva is the trustees’ distinguished professor of New Testament and Greek at Ashland Theological Seminary in Ohio, where he’s taught since 1995. He’s written over 20 books in the areas of New Testament and Second Temple Judaism and is a leading expert on the cultural world of the New Testament.