Midterm 1

Question 1

Synoptic Gospels

Answer 1

Matthew Mark and Luke

should be viewed together since they tell the same story

Question 2

Book of Mark

Answer 2

Doesn’t talk about Jesus’ birth

Focused on Jesus’ actions

Question 3

Synoptic Problem

Answer 3

Sometimes quote each other verbatim

Sometimes only two of the 3 books agree, such as Mark and Matthew but not Luke

Question 4

Resolution from synoptic problem

Answer 4

Matthew and Luke take info from Mark
However, Matthew and Luke had a document(s) that Mark did not have
Each Matthew and Luke seem to have their own individual sources as well distinct from each other
Q is the document Matthew and Luke Share, but not Mark

Question 5

When was Mark written?

Answer 5

CE 70
his predictions/prophecies that came true become inaccurate after around 70
Doesn’t have references to enslavement of Jews

Question 6

Messianic Secret

Answer 6

Insists that those who recognize Jesus as the messiah should keep this knowledge secret
Jesus encourages people to participate in Jewish rituals

Mark inisists Jesus kept his identity secret because he was a new idea. Because the idea of a Messiah is different than what Jews were expecting

Question 7

Satan meaning

Answer 7

Belligerent

Question 8

The Suffering Servant

Answer 8

Parallel between the suffering servant and Jesus

Was a servant who bore the bruises for healing others

Question 9

Blood Libel

Answer 9

The idea that Jews are responsible for the death of Jesus and their descendants are responsible for this death

Question 10

Genealogy in Matthew

Answer 10

Since Jesus is two sets of 14 (2 * 7) generations away from King David, his connection to David was mathematically foretold

Question 11

Difference between Mark and Matthew Jesus Birth

Answer 11

Jesus was born in Nazereth by Mark’s while Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Matthew’s version

Question 12

Antitheses

Answer 12

The process of Jesus making the Jewish law stricter

Question 13

Anachoresis

Answer 13

The idea of settling disputes in the church

Question 14

Matthew Jesus Persecution

Answer 14

Jesus runs away often in Matthew’s book to parallel the persecution of the followers of Jesus

Question 15

Matthew and Jews

Answer 15

When Matthew preaches against Jews, he is preaching against the Pharisees. Sort of like the struggle between the Jewish peasants and the Jewish higher class

Question 16

Book of Matthew primary reason for writing

Answer 16

concerned with making sure the Jesus movement and Judaism didn’t have any conflicts

Question 17

Luke Primary Motivators

Answer 17

concerned with telling the history of Jesus, and gets his sources from other sources/accounts/eye witnesses

Traces the heritage of Jesus all the way back to God

Luke is heavily concerned with Mary’s virginity

Speaks against the rich and argues for the poor heavily

Question 18

Parable

Answer 18

A religious story

Question 19

Theophilus

Answer 19

A greek name

Is probably a generic term, as Luke tends to address “all god lovers”

Question 20

Magnificat

Answer 20

When Mary finds out she is pregnant, she sings a song that mirrors Luke view on what Jesus should be: A messiah of the poor

Question 21

Test in the wilderness

Answer 21

Jesus fasts for 40 days and nights

Jesus resists 3 temptations

In Luke’s version, he places a higher emphasis on Jerusalem

Question 22

Luke argues against the implication that Jesus should go to the Jews prior to the Gentiles.

Answer 22

Just thought you should know that

Question 23

Beatitudes

Answer 23

Matthew 5:1-14
Luke 6:20-27
Talks about how the underprivledged will be blessed, while those who are not will not

Question 24

Samaritans

Answer 24

From Samaria

Only believed in the first 5 books

Question 25

Levites

Answer 25

Temple servants

All descendants of Jacob

Question 26

Passion

Answer 26

To be passionate/To suffer

Question 27

Acts

Answer 27

Written by Luke

Asks: Must you be Jewish to be part of the Jesus Movement?

Question 28

Gospel of John

Answer 28

Believes that we are already in the apocalypse

Believes Jesus is God

No evidence he uses sources from Mark or Q

Dated between 95CE and 120CE

Written outside of palenstine

Likely written in Rome

Question 29

Logos

Answer 29

There is a deity so unexplainable that words can’t explain it, so Logos is divinity that can traverse the divine and human realms in order to help us understand the divine
John identifies the “Logos” as Jesus

Question 30

Christology

Answer 30

A theory about what Christ is
Is Jesus is human
A god?
Both

Question 31

Low Christology

Answer 31

Christology that don’t presume the ultimate divinity of Jesus

Jesus can have some divine characteristics, but is not like a God

Question 32

High Christology

Answer 32

Explicitly stating Jesus is God

Question 33

Sectarianism

Answer 33

A church stands on low tension with societal values
Sects are in moderate tension
Cults are in high tension
Sects can become churchs or cults
Sectarian means that it stands in moderate tension

Question 34

Gospel of Thomas

Answer 34

Was part of some original churches

Argued that admittance into Jesus’ “inner-circle” was based on intelligence

“Living Jesus” implies that Jesus was present and heard Jesus’ words himself

Yet in John Thomas is often absent when Jesus is present

In Matthew Peter is the heir to Jesus. In Thomas, James is the heir to Jesus

Thomas gives himself secret knowledge to give himself authority

Question 35

Apophatic philosophy

Answer 35

Means that the deity (Jesus) is so unknowable that human language cannot articulate what said deity is

Question 36

John’s goal

Answer 36

To Show Jesus is God

Question 37

Plato’s Supreme Deity

Answer 37

What we see in the world is several layers down from its actual form
The ideal of humanity is far different from what we actually experience