The Gospels
A term to describe reading New Testament events as fulfillments of Old Testament ones.
What is typology?
Number of days Jesus wandered the wilderness.
What is 40?
A hated group in Jewish society under Roman rule, but welcomed by Jesus.
Who are tax collectors?
The set of blessings that invert earthly values.
What are the Beatitudes?
A word used to describe a wasteful spendthrift, or a generous God
What is "prodigal"?
The German-named gospel source comprised of Jesus's hypothetical sayings
What is quelle or Q?
The title Jesus often uses for himself.
What is "the Son of Man"?
Things that are contrary to nature and cannot be represented in rational terms.
What are miracles?
The Old Testament figure Jesus echoes in Matthew's version of the sermon.
Who is Moses?
The indescribable subject of all parables.
What is the Kingdom of God?
A term describing the overlap between the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke
What is synoptic?
The female figure Jesus is compared to.
Who is Lady Wisdom?
The words that Matthew and Luke use in this sentence: “Be _____, even as your Father is _____.”
What are perfect and merciful?
What Jesus says he's come to do to the laws of the Torah... and what hasn't come to do.
What is fulfill and not abolish them?
What you should do if your foot causes you to stumble, according to Jesus.
What is cut it off?
The two types of men thought worthy of biographies in the ancient world
The negative version of the title "the Son of David."
What is the King of the Jews?
The cultural makeup of Matthew's community.
What is mainly Jewish?
Where Jesus's sermon takes place, according to Luke
The prodigal son's occupation in the far country.
What is a swineherd?
The Greek term for "good news."
What is evangelion?
The number of people Jesus feeds with the loaves and fishes.
What is 5,000?
The two groups represented allegorically by the prodigal son and the older son in Luke.
Who are the Jews and pagan converts to Christianity?
His version of the Sermon on the Mount is more popular today.
Who is Matthew?
Jesus uses this literary device, closely related to paradox, to emphasize his teachings.
What is hyperbole?