The synoptic gospels- scholars

Question 1

Bock on OT

Answer 1

> didn’t believe there was a problem with the Chinese whisper effect- ‘rote memorisation was normal and part of very day life, they were very good at memorising large bodies of text’> when some is at stake they are more likely to remember and the aim is to accurately remember and not change

Question 2

JG Von Herder on OT

Answer 2

discovered the bible began with oral preaching and not the written word

Question 3

Deuteronomy

Answer 3

‘take care: keep careful watch on yourselves so that you do not forget the things you have seen with your own eyes’

Question 4

Dibelius on OT

Answer 4

thought that the early church had preserved relatively reliable memories from the early ministry of Jesus

Question 5

Kelber on OT

Answer 5

suggested folk law oral narratives were subject to change according to the audience, unlike written texts, therefore, not very reliable

Question 6

Bultmann on Jesus

Answer 6

we can know nothing on the historical Jesus

Question 7

Griesbach on source crit

Answer 7

argued that Mt wrote first- he was na apostle

Question 8

Butler on source crit

Answer 8

suggested Mt wrote gospel in Aramaic, which peter used for preaching and then mark transcribe his teaching and added eye witness embellishment

Question 9

Gieseler on source crit

Answer 9

suggested similarities existed due to OT

Question 10

Lessing on source crit

Answer 10

accepted evidence for the obvious similarities of content and order found in the three gospels

Question 11

B H streeter source crit

Answer 11

four source theory