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Gospel Characteristics
Saints and Scholars
Life of Jesus
Christological Titles
Scholarly Terms
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Highlights the failure of the disciples more than the other Gospels.
What is the Gospel of Mark?
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Composed the earliest harmony of the Gospels, the Diatessaron.
Who is Tatian?
100
Place of Jesus' birth, and also the site of the "Slaughter of the Innocents" by Herod the Great.
What is Bethlehem?
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Comes from a Greek word, which is in turn based upon a Hebrew term, meaning "anointed one."
What is "Christ"?
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From the Greek word for "preaching," it can denote the content as well as the act of proclaiming the gospel.
What is "kerygma"?
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Begins with a hymn-like prologue that identifies Jesus as "the Word."
What is the Gospel of John?
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Called the Gospels "memoirs of the apostles."
Who is Justin Martyr?
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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?
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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"?
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A German word used by scholars to denote God's entire plan of redemption throughout "salvation history."
What is Heilsgeschichte?
300
Jesus' miracles are called "signs."
What is the Gospel of John?
300
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' own person and work.
Who is C. H. Dodd?
300
Mary's song of praise (Luke 1:46-55), celebrating God's bringing the Savior to the poor and lowly.
What is the Magnificat?
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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"?
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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"?
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Like the Dead Sea Scrolls, it contains concepts and phrasing that reflect ethical dualism (e.g., light and darkness, truth and error).
What is the Gospel of John
400
Recoginzed as the first person to engage in the quest for the historical Jesus.
Who is Hermann Samuel Reimarus?
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Jesus' last words in Matthew and Mark: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me."
What is "the cry of dereliction"?
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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"?
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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?
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Its author may have been the only Gentile author in the New Testament.
What is the Gospel of Luke
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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?
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The only miracle performed by Jesus that is recorded in all Four Gospels.
What is the Feeding of the Five Thousand?
500
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"?
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A casket or "bone-box," carved from limestone, used for "secondary burial."
What is an ossuary?