Week 5: 31-40

Question 1

Form Criticism

Answer 1

History of Forms; discipline pioneered by H. Gunkel, M. Dibelius, and R. Bultmann which attempts to get behind written sources to describe how various pre-literary (oral) traditions expressed in conventionally accepted units (forms/genre) were handed on to persons and communities and to determine on the basis of such units the life and thought (sitz im leben) of the community from which they come

Question 2

Fundamentalism

Answer 2

An approach to Bible study and Christian living which holds that the Bible is the only and final authority for Christian belief and practice, and that the Bible is always to be interpreted as literally true; in the early 20th century, a religious movement among US Protestants based on adherence to traditional orthodox tenets fundamental to Christian faith.

Question 3

Genre

Answer 3

a form of literature which by its style and purpose is determined to be of a particular type

Question 4

Gospel

Answer 4

GK ‘euangelion “Good News”; a) the joyous revelation of the intention of God to bring to salvation all those who believe in Jesus Christ, His Son; b) a unique literary form produced by the early church which tells the foundational story of what is believed to be God’s definitive encounter with humanity in the person of Jesus Christ, written by believers for believers to call the reader to live out a faith based upon the teachings and deeds of the one who is confessed to be the Risen Lord within the Christian community.

Question 5

Griesbach-Farmer Hypothesis

Answer 5

an approach to the synoptic problem first developed by J. Griesbach (1774) and revived today by W. Farmer and others which proposed the literary priority of Mt, the direct dependence of Lk on Mt, and Mark as a summary of Mt with some appeal to Lk.

Question 6

Haggadah

Answer 6

HB “to narrate”; collections of rabbinic traditions (tales, anecdotes, and other materials) that illustrate the Torah and are included in the Talmud.

Question 7

Halakah

Answer 7

HB “to walk”; rules of conduct and legal regulations handed down by rabbis as the authoritative interpretation of the written scriptures and the oral tradition and included in the Talmud

Question 8

Hapax Legomenon

Answer 8

pl = hapax legomena; GK “said only once”; refers to a word or expression that appears only once in the Bible or a particular book of the Bible or is used only once by a particular biblical author

Question 9

Hermeneutics

Answer 9

Two understandings: a) the principles of exegesis (as distinct from the practice itself) and b) the science of discerning how a text written in one cultural context may be understood in another.

Question 10

Historical Critical Method

Answer 10

those methods and disciplines which use the tools of historical research in reading biblical texts in an attempt to understand the text in its historical context (original setting and audience, stages of development into a written or oral tradition, etc); an umbrella term which includes such approaches as textual, historical, source, form and redaction criticism