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Culture & Context: The Gospel of Luke
Year 2 begins with the gospel of Luke. He is not identified by name in the gospel, but was well known by early believers. Acts 27:1- 28:15 places the author in Rome along with the apostle Paul. Luke was not an apostle nor did he witness to the gospel events; however, being a companion of Paul, who was an apostle of Jesus, gave him direct access to source material. Both his gospel and the book of Acts were written in letter form to Theophilus.


Culture & Context: The Gospel of John
Year 1 begins with the gospel of John. Wait- we don’t start with Genesis? Don’t worry...Genesis is the next
book. John is an excellent starting place because it is an evangelistic book- John wrote this book to
persuade people to come to a saving belief in Jesus. I have personally done in-depth Bible studies of John
several times and have seen and learned something new every time.


Culture & Context: Psalms
After years of wandering, the sinful generation (except for Joshua and Caleb) had died out, Moses had passed the torch of leadership
The Bible has five “poetry” books: Job (yup, Job is considered poetry, as well as wisdom literature), Psalms,
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon (which is one of the most explicit love poems ever
written!). Poetry is just one of the forms of literature in the Bible. There is a flow-chart in the Joshua, Part 2
blog that shows some of
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