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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.

Judges in the time of the Old Testament were both legal and political. During the time of Moses, the elders of the tribes acted as judges in settling disputes. Samuel and his sons were circuit-riding judges, traveling to different towns to act as judge.

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