Final Exam - Ch 10-11

Question 1

Beloved Disciple

Answer 1

Nickname for the “disciple whom Jesus loved” in the Gospel of John, who plays a prominent role in the Passion narrative but is never named. Older tradition identified him as John, the son of Zebedee, and claimed that it was he who wrote the Gospel.

Question 2

Christology

Answer 2

Any teaching about the nature of Christ. See also Adoptionism; Docetism.

Question 3

Farewell Discourse

Answer 3

The final discourse that Jesus delivers in the Gospel of John (and not found in the Synoptics), chapters 13-16 (sometimes thought to include Jesus’ prayer of chap. 17 as well); this discourse may have been created by combining two different accounts of Jesus’ last words to his disciples before his arrest.

Question 4

I am sayings

Answer 4

A group of sayings found only in the Gospel of John in which Jesus identifies himself. In some of the sayings he speaks in metaphor (“I am the bread of life,” “lam the light of the world,” “I am the way, the truth, and the life”), and other times he identifies himself simply by saying “I am”—a possible reference to the name of God from Exodus 3 (“Before Abraham was, I am’; John 8:58).

Question 5

Genre

Answer 5

A kind of literature with specific literary features; in the modern world, for example, there are short stories, novels, and limerick poems (each with their own distinc tive features); in the ancient world, there were biographies, epic poems, general histories—and many other genres. The major genres of the New Testament are the Gospels (which are most like religious biographies), Acts (most like general histories), epistles, and apocalypses.

Question 6

Johannine Community

Answer 6

The community of Christians in which the Gospel of John and the Johannine epistles were written. We do not know where the community was located, but we can reconstruct some of its history using the socio-historical method.

Question 7

Docetist (docetism)

Answer 7

The view that Jesus was not a human being but only appeared to be; from a Greek word meaning “to seem” or “to appear.”

Question 8

Gnostics (gnosticism)

Answer 8

A group of ancient religions, some of them closely related to Christianity, that maintained that elements of the divine had become entrapped in this evil world of matter and could be released only when they acquired the secret gnosis (Greek for “knowledge”) of who they were and of how they could escape. Gnosis was generally thought to be brought by an emissary of the divine realm. See also Sethians, Valentinians.

Question 9

Nag Hammadi

Answer 9

Village in upper (southern) Egypt, near the place where a collection of Gnostic writings was discovered in 1945.

Question 10

Secssionists

Answer 10

Members of the Johannine community who, according to the author of | John, had “seceded” (i.e., left) the community to form a community of their own. | John, which calls these people “antichrists,” suggests that they had adopted a docetic Christology, not allowing that Christ was fully human.

Question 11

Johannine Love Command

Answer 11

Love one another = serve one another (Model is Jesus’ foot washing)
(1 John 2:7-11; 3:11; 4:7-12)
Love one another, just as I have loved you