Session three: Luke

In this session I learned what 'midrash' means. It refers to rabbinic literature/commentaries on the Hebrew scriptures: basically it explains the "rules". We also looked at Gematria, which blew my mind a bit and is seemingly a code derived as part of biblical analysis by some incredible clever and deep people... What was interesting is that the number 14 in this code is deemed to be significant as it means 'kingship', 'David', 'gold' (these were the different answers we had all found); all words pointing to the line of David. The genealogies set out in Luke's gospel are all in lines of 14... I like Luke. He was a physician and wrote a great, logical and detailed history. It makes sense to me :-)