From: Jenee Woodard <jeneewd@dmci.net
Subject: [textweek] Resources for Advent/Christmas & Year C


Some general resources for the Advent/Christmas seasons, and for the
Gospel of Luke:

The best place to start for Advent/Christmas resources is with Richard
and Charlene Fairchild's award-winning "A Holy Christmas". This is a
fine resource which lists links to everything from Advent Calendars to
New Years Resolutions, as well as the Fairchilds' own excellent
resources. You'll fine "A Holy Christmas" at:
http://www.rockies.net/~spirit/sermons/christmaspage.html

The Text This Week's general Advent resources can be found at:
http://www.textweek.com/advent.htm
General Christmas resources are at
http://www.textweek.com/christmas.htm

I've listed a vast number of links to Advent and Christmas related
artwork at the Art Concordance.

You can find links to artwork depicting the following subjects at the
links below:

Advent/Waiting
http://www.textweek.com/art/waiting.htm

Annunciation
http://www.textweek.com/art/annunciation.htm

John the Baptist
http://www.textweek.com/art/john_the_baptist.htm

Last Judgment
http://www.textweek.com/art/last_judgment.htm

Visitation
http://www.textweek.com/art/visitation.htm

Nativity
http://www.textweek.com/art/nativity.htm

Madonna and Child/Holy Family
http://www.textweek.com/art/holy_family.htm

Magi
http://www.textweek.com/art/magi.htm

Shepherds
http://www.textweek.com/art/shepherds.htm

Flight into Egypt
http://www.textweek.com/art/flight_into_egypt.htm

Massacre of the Innocents
http://www.textweek.com/art/massacre_of_innocents.htm

Presentation/Circumcision
http://www.textweek.com/art/presentation.htm

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To help you change gears from Year B to Year C, here are some general
resources for studying the Gospel of Luke:
http://www.textweek.com/mtlk/luke.htm
including:

"Luke" at Luther Seminary's Bible Tutor. Study basics about Bible
books, people, dates, places, and content, and take web-based
self-tests. CD-ROM of Advanced Studies also available at their site.
http://www.bibletutor.com/use30/level1/program/start/books/newtest/gos
pels/luke.htm

At Encyclopedia Britannica:
"The Gospel According to Luke," in "Biblical Literature"
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/4/0,5716,119714+8,00.html
"Saint Luke"
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/0/0,5716,50510+1,00.html
"Gospel According to Luke"
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/2/0,5716,50512+1,00.html

Gospel of Saint Luke from the Catholic Encyclopedia
http://www.knight.org/advent/cathen/09420a.htm

The Gospel of Luke webpage by Richard H. Anderson includes essays,
links and images.
http://www.geocities.com/gospelofluke/

The Gospel of Luke: Introduction and Outline by Professor Barry D.
Smith, Atlantic Baptist University, in Religious Studies 1023: The New
Testament and Its Context.
http://www.abu.nb.ca/courses/NTIntro/Luke.htm

Luke: Introduction, Outline and Argument, by Daniel B. Wallace at the
Biblical Studies Foundation.
http://www.bible.org/docs/soapbox/lukeotl.htm

Introduction to Luke, The People's New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891.
http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/texts/bjohnson/hg1/PNT03-00.HTM

"The Gospel of Luke," in An Introduction to the New Testament by
Richard Heard. Full text of book online at Religion Online.
http://www.religion-online.org/cgi-bin/relsearchd.dll?action=showitem&
id=538

"Examples of Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation in Luke," Dr. Vernon K.
Robbins, at The Encyclopedia of Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation.
http://www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/RELIGION/faculty/robbins/SRI/Examples/tex
ts/luke/index.html

"Luke and the Rhetoric of Discipleship," Greg Carey. The Journal for
the Study of Rhetorical Criticism in the NT. (pdf file)
http://rhetjournal.uor.edu/Carey.html

"Women in Luke's Gospel," Jane Kopas, Theology Today, 1986.
http://www.weblications.com/theologytoday/jul1986/v43-2-article4.htm

Color-Coded Luke (coded according to source material), at Dr. James
D. Tabor's The Jewish Roman World of Jesus.
http://www.uncc.edu/jdtabor/luke.html

Images listed at The Text This Week's Art Concordance:
Luke
http://www.textweek.com/art/luke.htm

A list of links to a large number of reviews of newer commentaries and
books on the Gospel of Luke:
http://www.textweek.com/mtlk/luke.htm
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Jenee

Jenee Woodard -- Jackson, Michigan
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