Mark and Vocab
Define 'Messianic Secret' define 'markan priority'
Jesus directing people recognizing him as the messiah to not share
the fact that mark was the first gospel written
what is the 'Synoptic Problem'?
how/why are the synoptic gospels so similar and contradictory/different?
define 'scribes'
define 'gentiles'
Jewish legal scholars
non-Jewish people
List the Synoptic Gospels and define 'Gospel'
Mt, Mk, Lk
Good News
Define 'Syrophoenician' and 'Golgotha'
someone from one of the Phoenician cities
the place of the skull
Define 'Anawim' and 'Canticle'
hebrew term for poor and marginalized
word for 'song'
Define 'evangelists'
define 'torah'
messengers of Good News
the 'Law' (first 5 books)
What is the Hebrew Bible/Tanakh? and define 'venerate'
synonymous with the books in the old testament
deep reverence/devotion for
What is the central image of Jesus Mark's Gospel? And who wrote the biography on Octavius Augustus that we read in class?
Suffering Servant
Suetonius
Define 'Quelle (Q)'
Define 'kergyma'
Quelle: a hypothetical source that Matthew and Luke used
Greek word meaning preaching or proclamation
What is the portrait of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew?
teacher/prophet
Define 'Rabbi' and 'Magi'
honored teacher
learned one / priest
What was the event in the Gospel of Mark, that caused the religious leaders to want to conspire to kill Jesus?
Jesus' cleansing of the temple
What part of the Bible did the Pharisees accept so far? What part of the Bible did the Sadducees accept?
Law and Prophets vs. just Law
There are multiple ways we listed that Jesus is likened to Moses in the Gospel of Matthew. Name 2
Birth narrative (killing of babies & flight to Egypt)
Giving of the Law (Sermon on the Mount, sharing commandments)
How many stages were there in the development of the Gospels? What were those stages?
3
life and teaching (Event)
oral tradition
written gospels
What are the names of the two different theories attempting to explain Matthew and Luke's use of Mark? Please explain or draw them on the board.
Farrer Hypothesis / 4 source theory/hypothesis...
What image of Jesus is prominent in Luke's Gospel?
What is the central question about the Kingdom of God that the Gospel of Luke answers?
Compassionate Healer
Who is in and who is out of the Kingdom of God? (everyone is fair game)
What was the tension that existed in the Matthean Community? How did this affect the manner in which Matthew wrote about Jesus?
tension between the old and new (traditions)
addressed by (1) Jesus' genealogy, and (2) fulfillment of OT hopes and prophecies
What were Josephus' (3) categories of Jews? And briefly describe them
Essen(es), Pharisee(s), Sadducee(s)
(1) high view of fate; very reserved
(2) belief in the afterlife and eternal soul, fate + free will, etc.
(3) no eternal soul, no fate, etc. (only torah)