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2010 Spring – Reading the Gospels, Part Three: The Final Week

Wednesdays, Period 5 (11:45 – 12:35) OR Period 6 (12:50 – 1:40)
Instructor: Dr. Richard Horner, Executive Director, Christian Study Center

Introduction
Rooted in a careful reading of the text, this class will keep all four Gospels in view in order to highlight both the challenges and the richness that follow from setting the accounts alongside each other and allowing their different styles, perspectives, and agendas to emerge. Having studied the gospel narrative from Christ’s birth through his approach to Jerusalem in previous classes, in this class we will follow Jesus into Jerusalem for the final week of his life.

While there is no required reading for this class, students who read the relevant biblical texts will find the class far more rewarding. These texts include Matthew 21-28; Mark 11-16; Luke 19-24; and John 12-21. Specific assignments are listed below. Whether you read outside or class or not, do bring a Bible to class. Dr. Horner will hold discussion sessions (office hours) on Fridays upstairs in Pascal’s Coffeehouse from 11am to 12:30pm.

Schedule

Class Date Matthew Mark Luke John
January 13: Triumphal Entry 21.1-22 11.1-26 19.29-48 12.1-19
January 20: Tension and Teaching 11.27-12.44 20.1-21.4
January 27: Tension and Teaching 21.23-23.39 12.20-50
February 3: The Temple & Things to Come 24.1-25.46 13.1-37 21.5-38
February 10: Upper Room and Garden 26.1-56 14.1-52 22.1-53
February 17: Upper Room and Garden 13.1-18.11
February 24: Arrest & Trial Before Caiaphas 26.57-27.1 14.53-72 22.54-62 18.12-27
March 3: The Trial Before Pilate 27.2-30 15.1-20a 23.1-25 18.28-19.16
March 10: SPRING BREAK
March 17: The Crucifixion 27.31-56 15.20b-41 23.26-49 19.17-37
March 24: The Crucifixion
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March 31: The Resurrection 28.1-15 15.42-16.8 23.50-24.12 19.38-20.10
April 7: Resurrection Appearances 28.16-20 [16.9-20] 24.13-53 20.11-21.25

“We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found it too slow in coming and were trying to hurry it up, or we recall the past as if to stay its too rapid flight. We are so unwise that we wander about in times that do not belong to us, and do not think of the only one that does; so vain that we dream of times that are not and blindly flee the only one that is. The fact is that the present usually hurts.... Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.”

Blaise Pascal