RE-MAKING THE GALILEE Jesus

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RE-MAKING THE GALILEEJesus World
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GALILEE
The Galilee is farm country Small, family farms
arent rich, but have survived for generations
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KING HEROD THE GREAT
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HEROD THE GREAT Hugely ambitious Accepted
Roman rule Romans appointed him king Herod
built the SECOND TEMPLE
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HEROD THE GREAT

• Is determined to RE-MAKE the Land of Israel in
  Romes image
• Cities! Armies! Wealth!
• TAXES
• And to collect the taxes?
• TAX-COLLECTORS, SOLDIERS, POLICE, CENSUS TAKERS

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Herod the Great dies in 4 b.c.e.
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HEROD ANTIPAS his even greater ambitions
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Herods Gate In Jerusalem Built during the time
of Herod Antipas
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Herod Antipas grand new city in the Galilee
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SEPPHORIS
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SEPPHORIS
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TIBERIUSThe Other New City
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TIBERIUS Herod Antipass even greater city on
the Sea of Galilee
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Tiberius, overlooking the Sea of Galilee
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Village Life in the Galilee
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SEA OF GALILEE
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By Jesus day, Fishing had become very big
business
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Fishing boat found on the shores of the Sea of
Galilee
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MOST PEOPLE IN THE GALILEE ARE FARMERS,
SHEPHERDS, OR FISHERMEN, WHO LIVE IN SMALL
VILLAGES
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Olive Grove
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Olive Grove
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Farm worker probably much like farmer workers in
Jesus day
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Farmers Dreams v. Imperial Ambitions

• Farmers dreams family survival on the land of
  their ancestors, generation after generation.

• Build a huge, commercial, powerful kingdom in
  which the rich few dominate the many poor

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TAXES

• THE FARMERS FISHERFOLK ARE THE SOURCE OF WEALTH
  -- YET THEY HAVE LITTLE POWER
• Everyone taxes them
• Herod Antipas
• Jerusalems Priests
• The Romans
• AND THE POOR ARE LEFT BROKE!

Coin from the time of Herod the Great
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IS v. OUGHT

• The way things is
• The powerful lord it over the weak
• The rich get richer
• The poor get poorer
• There is no Justice!

• The way things ought to be
• Each person treated with dignity
• There is plenty for all
• There is Justice for everyone!

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IN FARM TOWNS LIKE NAZARETH, ALL THE TALK IS
ABOUT DEBT, LOSING YOUR FARM, CRUSHING TAXES
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Response 1 Cooperate with Herod Antipas the
Romans

• The SADDUCEES

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Response 2 Withdraw from the World

• The ESSENES
• Qumran Community
• The Dead Sea Scrolls

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Response 3 Call for Individual Purification

• THE PHARISEES
• NOT villains!
• Intensely pious people Jesus, certainly Paul,
  were deeply influenced by them

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Response 4 Political Rebellion

• THE ZEALOTS
• One apostle is described as a Zealot

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THE FATEFUL CONFLICT

• Herod Antipas the Imperial Movement
• Urban
• Wealthy
• Secular Power
• Power

• The Renewal of Israel Movement
• Rural
• Poor
• The Covenant
• Justice!

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JOHN THE BAPTIST

• A Mix of all four responses
• John as the last of the PROPHETS (remember Micah!)

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Jesus of Nazareth
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JESUS IS BAPTIZED BY JOHN IN THE JORDAN RIVER
(Child at the Jordan River)
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JESUS EMERGES AS LEADER OF THE RENEWAL OF ISRAEL
MOVEMENT
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JESUS, ON TRIAL BEFORE HEROD ANTIPAS Conflict,
rebellion, repression in Galilee