Your first task for this position paper is to read: David Cartlidge and David Dungan, Documents for the Study of the Gospels, 2nd ed. (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1994).
These passages are all drawn from ancient sources that relate the words, deeds, and experiences attributed to persons who were thought to be divine by some people living in the Greco-Roman world.
Now read the Gospel according to Luke, chaps. 1-2; 4-5; 7-8; 21-24. (available anywhere online or can be uploaded, if necessary)
For your paper, you are to:
List three specific ways in which Jesus as portrayed in Luke is similar to other people who were thought to be divine. (Give exact chapter and verse references when referring to passages in Luke.)
Are there ways in which Jesus appears to be different from other divine men? How do you explain these similarities and differences?
