Gospel criticism Flashcards
what are the four types of gospel criticism?
- source criticism
- form criticism
- narrative/literary criticism
- redaction criticism
what is a concern for source criticism?
the written tradition
what does the written tradition claim to have happened before the gospels were written?
at least some of Jesus’ teachings had been written down
who devised form criticism?
R. Bultmann
what does form criticism consider evangelists to be?
‘cut and paste editors’
why are they claimed to be ‘cut and paste editors’?
as they have taken traditional stories and teachings and stuck them together to make the narrative
what is form criticism concerned with?
the oral tradition
what is the oral tradition?
eyewitness accounts of events
why is oral tradition an issue?
as people’s ideas and accounts could be shaped by their usage i.e. being unreliable or only remembering certain aspects of a story (rose tinted glasses)
who devised narrative/literary criticism of the gospels?
N. Perrin and R. Burridge
what do the gospels entail?
literary characteristics
what literary characteristics are prominent within the gospels?
character development, a plot, spoken narrative etc…
what could the gospels be called according to the literary critics?
an ancient biography
what is an ancient biography also known as?
ancient bios
what can the evangelists be considered as?
authors in their own rights
