What does Gospel mean?☑️☑️ Means good news or good message
The 4 gospels are biographical☑️☑️ False
__ books do not cover Jesus's birth☑️☑️ 2
____ talk about his birth☑️☑️ 2
All the gospels jump forward 30 years of Jesus's life☑️☑️ True
The gospels cover...
What does Gospel mean?☑️☑️Means good news or good message
The 4 gospels are biographical☑️☑️False
__ books do not cover Jesus's birth☑️☑️2
____ talk about his birth☑️☑️2
All the gospels jump forward 30 years of Jesus's life☑️☑️True
The gospels cover _____ days total of Jesus's life☑️☑️50
What are the 4 purposes of the Gospels ?☑️☑️1. Historical purpose: they are covering some
historical events that they were eye witnesses to
2. Catechetical purpose: authors are teaching with the gospels about Jesus and they assume
readers never heard it
3. Apologetic purpose: defending their beliefs about Christianity and explaining
4. Evangelical Purpose: they want readers to hear, understand, believe, and place your faith in it
(recruiters for Christianity) *ultimate purpose*
What was the same and different about these 4 books?☑️☑️It was the same place, same timeish,
same story
different audiences, different purpose, different style (verbal theory)
There are ___ books that have the good news☑️☑️4
There are 4 different Gospels☑️☑️false: 4 different books that tell the same gospel (story) not 4
different gospels meaning they tell a different story
Who is Matthew audience?☑️☑️Jewish
Who is Mark's audience?☑️☑️Roman
Who is Luke's audience?☑️☑️Gentiles
Who is John Writing to? What is the time difference between his writing and the others?☑️☑️the
church and 50 years later
,what are the synoptic Gospels?☑️☑️Matthew, Mark, Luke
What does synoptic mean in synoptic Gospels?☑️☑️*Seen together*
the 3 are seen together because it appears that Matthew and Luke are built around Mark
They are very similar
What is the synoptic problem?☑️☑️how do you explain the differences and similarities in these 3
books
as early as the ________ they tried to work out this synoptic problem by comparing the
books☑️☑️300s (700 years ago)
From beginning of 1800ish everyone agreed on the Gospels☑️☑️True
What changed the universal agreement on the Gospels after the 1800s?☑️☑️Enlightenment
How did people think about the Gospels in the Enlightenment ?☑️☑️they started thinking
scientifically, using a scientific method to fight
the way to come to the truth or knowledge is to test the bible
(ex: people can not scientifically raise from the dead there must be a scientific explanation)
in the enlightenment the bible was read as a _____________ book not divine inspire.☑️☑️human
using the enlightenment thinking and using scientific method they believed the bible was still
divine inspired.☑️☑️False
the enlightenment brought ____________ about the bible☑️☑️skepticism
What did Samuel Reimarus and H.E.G. Paulus think about the bible?☑️☑️the authors must of
been influenced by superstition
There is some naturalistic explanation for *Jesus's miracles*
interpreting data differently because they don't believe in miracles just a natural way to explain
them
Samuel Reimarus and H.E.G. Paulus do not want the bible or believe some of it is still
true.☑️☑️False
What did David Strauss think about the bible?☑️☑️Miracles are not true it is all myths made up to
make Jesus more valuable to follow
offers no naturalistic explanation
on the quest for historical Jesus (who is the real Jesus)
Believes the bible is full of errors--- incoherent
, David Strauss had an incoherent idea about the bible☑️☑️True
What was the result of the quest for uncovering the bible in the enlightenment ?☑️☑️Critical
study of the Gospels
What was the critical study of the Gospels?☑️☑️carefully and cautiously approaching to research
the Bible
not out to hurt the Bible
What are the 2 methods used in critical study of Gospels?☑️☑️Lower criticism and Higher
Criticism
What is Lower Criticism ?☑️☑️Looks at the books and words themselves
looks at the text it self
What is Higher Criticism?☑️☑️Concerned about text but looking higher to find where they came
from and why those words are in the text
What is Textual Criticism?☑️☑️says without autographs we only have copies to work with and
copies contain errors
so how do we know what they really wrote?
looks at pieces and compares/contrasts them to think what the original said
trying to reconstruct the original manuscript
Textual Criticism is ___________ criticism☑️☑️Lower
We have _____ of the original manuscripts of any of the books of the Bible written by the
apostles☑️☑️0
we have ________ word for word agreement with what we have of the books☑️☑️90-97%
What is Textual Variant ?☑️☑️It is when there are brackets around certain texts in the bible---- so
the critic is trying to tell you many copies don't contain this portion
there is question surrounding this paragraph
many of these in the book of Mark and chapter 8 of John
What is 3 ways of Historical Criticism?☑️☑️Form Criticism, Redaction Criticism, Source
Criticism
What is Form Criticism?☑️☑️People who search for what form was the biblical text in before it
was written
Negative: what was lost or changed as passed down
positive: we know they were orally passed down from memorization
-Higher Criticism
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