Gospel Characteristics
The Gospel that is most dramatic.
What is the Gospel of Mark?
Jesus's mother tongue.
What is Aramaic?
The authors of the Gospels are traditionally given this title because they are "proclaimers of the gospel."
What is Evangelists?
A book that synthesizes the Four Gospels into one continuous narrative.
What is a harmony of the Gospels?
The opposite of apocryphal (or pseudepigraphal) gospels?
What is canonical Gospels?
The Gospel that is most thematic.
What is the Gospel of Luke?
The Gospel that presents Jesus as Savior for all people.
What is Luke?
The meaning of the Greek word euangelion.
What is "good news" (or "gospel")?
A directional expression referring to reading the Gospels by comparing their accounts side-by-side to find each Evangelist's unique perspective.
What is reading horizontally?
This non-canonical Gospel, discovered at Nag Hammadi in 1945, is written in Coptic and contains 114 saying of Jesus.
What is The Gospel of Thomas?
The Gospel that is most structured.
What is the Gospel of Matthew?
The Gospel that presents Jesus as the Jewish Messiah, the Davidic King.
What is Matthew?
The consensus view of scholars is that the Gospels were written in what ancient genre?
What is ancient biography (or bios)?
A book that places the Gospels in parallel columns in order to compare the similarities and differences in the accounts.
What is a synopsis of the Gospels?
Uniquely, this gospel narrates the moment of Jesus's resurrection, with a skyscraper-sized Jesus and two others exiting the tomb along with a talking cross following along.
What is The Gospel of Peter?
The Gospel that is most theological.
What is the Gospel of John?
The Gospel that presents Jesus as the suffering Son of God.
What is Mark?
Probably the most famous Gnostic gospel.
What is The Gospel of Thomas?
A directional expression referring to reading "downward" through an individual Gospel to trace its narrative and theological themes.
What is reading vertically?
This apocryphal gospel spins legends about the boy Jesus making clay pigeons that come to life and fly, lengthening a beam that had been cut too short, striking dead (and later resurrecting) a boy who had bumped into him, and cursing another playmate so that he withered like a barren tree.
What is The Infancy Gospel of Thomas?
A label for Matthew, Mark, and Luke because of their common perspective.
What is the Synoptic Gospels?
Whereas John presents Jesus's message of salvation in terms of knowing God and receiving eternal life, Matthew, Mark, and Luke present it as entrance into . . .
What is the kingdom of God?
Compiled the earliest known harmony of the Four Gospels.
Who is Tatian?
A reading strategy that Mark Strauss thinks is legitimate for seeking answers to historical questions, but not for theological or narrative ones.
What is harmonizing (or reading harmonistically)?
A term, meaning "unwritten things," referring to sayings of Jesus that occur outside of the canonical Gospels (e.g., "It is more blessed to give than to receive" [Acts 20:35]).
What is agrapha?