Learning to Live in Exile

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Learning to Live in Exile Week Four: Intimations of Immortality Welcome! Please fill out a name tag and help yourself to refreshments. Begin reading the passage from Daniel.

Review 

Week 1: The Mystery of Daniel ◦ Dating, Language, Place in Canon, Historical Accuracy

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Week 2: The Court Tales ◦ How do we read the accounts in ch. 2-5? History, historical fiction, folk tales

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Week 3: Apocalyptic Imagery ◦ Pseudopigrapha, Ex Eventu Prophecy ◦ The Crisis of Antiochus Epiphanes IV ◦ The “time of the end” and sealing up of messages

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Fresh Eyes and Ears 

Daniel 11:29- 12:13 ◦ What do you notice about the wise? What are they supposed to be doing and what will happen to them?

◦ What is God or his agents doing here? ◦ What does this suggest about how we should live in exile and persecution?

Resurrection? Divine Intervention? Apocalyptic Imagination?

Daniel in Matthew and Mark 24 As Jesus came out of the temple and was going away, his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. 2 Then he asked them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly I tell you, not one stone will be left here upon another; all will be thrown down.”  15 “So when you see the desolating sacrilege standing in the holy place, as was spoken of by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand),16 then those in Judea must flee to the mountains; 

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13 As he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher, what large stones and what large buildings!” 2 Then Jesus asked him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left here upon another; all will be thrown down.” 14 “But when you see the desolating sacrilege set up where it ought not to be (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains;

Some New Testament Questions 

What did Paul do after his conversion? ◦ Galatians 1:13 – 2:10 ◦ Acts 9:19b – 9:30

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What did Jesus say at his trials? ◦ Mark 14:60 – 65, 15:1-5 ◦ John 18:19-24, 18: 33-38

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Who wrote the pastoral epistles?

John Collins, The Apocalyptic Imagination

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