Mark and Vocab
Luke and Extra
Matthew and Vocab
mmm... idek
100

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 

100

what is the 'Synoptic Problem'? 

how/why are the synoptic gospels so similar and contradictory/different? 

100

define 'scribes' 

define 'gentiles'

Jewish legal scholars

non-Jewish people

100

List the Synoptic Gospels and define 'Gospel'

Mt, Mk, Lk

Good News

200

Define 'Syrophoenician' and 'Golgotha' 

someone from one of the Phoenician cities

the place of the skull

200

Define 'Anawim' and 'Canticle' 

hebrew term for poor and marginalized 

word for 'song' 

200

Define 'evangelists' 

define 'torah' 

messengers of Good News

the 'Law' (first 5 books) 

200

What is the Hebrew Bible/Tanakh? and define 'venerate' 

synonymous with the books in the old testament 

deep reverence/devotion for 

300

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 

300

Define 'Quelle (Q)'

Define 'kergyma' 

Quelle: a hypothetical source that Matthew and Luke used

Greek word meaning preaching or proclamation 

300

What is the portrait of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew? 

teacher/prophet 

300

Define 'Rabbi' and 'Magi' 

honored teacher 

learned one / priest

400

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

400

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

400

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) 


400

How many stages were there in the development of the Gospels? What were those stages?

life and teaching (Event)

oral tradition 

written gospels

500

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... 


500

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) 

500

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  

 

500

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)