Gospel Characteristics
Highlights the failure of the disciples more than the other Gospels.
What is the Gospel of Mark?
Composed the earliest harmony of the Gospels, the Diatessaron.
Who is Tatian?
Place of Jesus' birth, and also the site of the "Slaughter of the Innocents" by Herod the Great.
What is Bethlehem?
Comes from a Greek word, which is in turn based upon a Hebrew term, meaning "anointed one."
What is "Christ"?
From the Greek word for "preaching," it can denote the content as well as the act of proclaiming the gospel.
What is kerygma?
Begins with a hymn-like prologue that identifies Jesus as "the Word."
What is the Gospel of John?
Called the Gospels "memoirs of the apostles."
Who is Justin Martyr?
Mary's conceiving and bearing Jesus apart from sexual intercourse; mentioned only in Matthew 1:18-25 and Luke 1:26-38.
What is the virginal conception?
Based on a suffering figure who is the focus of four discrete passages in the book of Isaiah (42:1-7; 49:1-6; 50:4-9; 52:13-53:12). Jesus was believed to have fulfilled the role of this figure in his ministry and passion.
What is "Servant of Yahweh"?
A German word used by scholars to denote God's entire plan of redemption throughout "salvation history."
What is Heilsgeschichte?
Jesus's miracles are called "signs."
What is the Gospel of John?
The proponent of realized eschatology: the idea that Jesus was proclaiming the coming of the kingdom of God, not at some future point in time, but already in Jesus's own person and work.
Who is C. H. Dodd?
Mary's song of praise (Luke 1:46-55), celebrating God's bringing the Savior to the poor and lowly.
What is the Magnificat?
In its Jewish context, this title could be applied to human beings or angels, and did not indicate a divine figure. Even in the Gospels, this title may sometimes only indicate Jesus' identity as messianic king, though it also often points to Jesus' unique relationship to God as his Father.
What is "Son of God"?
A sayings source that accounts for the 235 verses of parallel material in Matthew and Luke that does not also occur in Mark.
What is "Q"?
The name given to Mark's central section (chs. 8-10) in which Jesus predicts his death and resurrection three times.
What is "the Way of the Cross."
Recoginzed as the first person to engage in the quest for the historical Jesus.
Who is Hermann Samuel Reimarus?
Jesus' last words in Matthew and Mark: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me."
What is "the cry of dereliction"?
Originates in Daniel 7:13-14's depiction of a supernatural figure who is given everlasting dominion and will judge the world.
What is "Son of Man"?
A German phrase pointing to the "situation in life" or the cultural/social context in which a saying or story of Jesus could be meaningfully interpreted and preserved.
What is Sitz im Leben?
Its author may have been the only Gentile author in the New Testament.
What is the Gospel of Luke?
Proposed that Luke wrote an original Gospel--dubbed Proto-Luke--based on Q and L. Later, the final edition of Luke's Gospel incorporated blocks of material from the Gospel of Mark, which Luke had access to in Rome.
Who is B. H. Streeter?
The only miracle performed by Jesus that is recorded in all Four Gospels.
What is the Feeding of the Five Thousand?
A title ascribed to Jesus by John the Baptist in the Fourth Gospel that identifies Jesus as a sin offering.
What is "Lamb of God"?
A casket or "bone-box," carved from limestone, used for "secondary burial."
What is an ossuary?