Intro to Christianity

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Week 3 Critical Analysis: Jesus Master-Story #3: Lukan Passion Narrative 

It is easy to pass quickly by the dialogues in Jesus’s trials, but important ideas are communicated in them. Your task is to analyze and present a mini-essay that examines any two (2) of the titles that are applied to Jesus by his interrogators in Luke 22:66-23, or in his responses in those verses. Use the research format Questionvidenceïnclusion, and present your findings in an Initial mini-essay, followed by two more Response mini-essays that offer an analysis of the conclusions and evidence presented in the Initial essay of two of your classmates.

Research:

• Question: Does the Lukan evangelist seem to be driving home a point about Jesusàperson and identity by including the particular titles applied to Jesus in the two trial scenes in Luke 22:66-23. If so, what might that point be?
• Does the evangelist seem to be driving home a point about Jesus by including one or both of the titles you analyzed in these trial scenes? What might it be? to included ²ing home! message to the reader about 
• Evidence: Give the most time to this part of your work, & start as early as you can. If done thoroughly, and with a moment to think (even passively) about your results, your list it will be nearly a first draft of the main part of your essay.
  • Preliminaries: Start by identifying the two separate trials in Luke 22:66-23:5 and note who is involved in each (who is leading the interrogation? Jewish leaders only? any Romans? the two trials are different). It might help to give each trial a separate page in your notes. Then identify all the titles (e.g., “son of God,” “Messiah”) you see applied to Jesus in one or both, and choose any two.
  • Step 1: In the two trial accounts, indicate for each of your selected titles, who is applying t to Jesus, in which trial, whether it looks like it is direct or a trap to make him say something that will be a self-indictment.
  • Step 2: For the two titles you choose, refer back to previous times in this gospel when it has been used. Who used it earlier in the narrative, in what context? Does this add any definition to the title when used in the trial scene(s)? You may confine your material to Focus Texts assigned for Weeks 1-3. See sources listed below. 
• Conclusion: What answer(s) to the Question does your Evidence point to? Make sure to check the Question & that your conclusion(s) are connected clearly & explicitly to your Evidence.