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Exegetical Considerations

Luke 21:25-36

1st Sunday in Advent/ November 30, 2003

1. What is the literary context of this text?

a. How does that context provide an interpretive framework for this passage?

2. What is Luke’s source for this text?

a. How has he redacted that source?

3. How does the use of semeia in v. 25 recall its use in 21:7?

a. What is the relationship between the events of 70 CE and the eschaton from Luke’s perspective?

4. How does v. 25
a. Echo Joel 3:3; Isaiah 5:30; 8:22; 13:11,13,14; 17:12?

b. Anticipate Acts 2:19-20?

c. Connect with v. 24 through the use of ethnon?

5. How does v. 26 echo Isaiah 13:6-11; 34:4?

6. How does v. 27 echo Daniel 7:13-14?

7. How are Christ’s people to respond to the events depicted in vv. 15-28?

a. How/why is that response markedly different from the reactions of the nations?

8. How does the use of apolutrosis in v. 28 recall 1:68; 2:38?