Take-home exam over Richard Burridge’s Four Gospels, One Jesus?

for BNEW 211 AMT “Life of Christ” with Dr. Allen Diles

Print these pages and staple them together. These questions are designed to be short answer rather than discussion. I want your answers to be legibly handwritten rather than typed. Please provide the page number or numbers on which you base your answers. This may help you get credit for answers that are not clear or complete. I prefer that you answer in the space provided, but if necessary, you may answer on separate paper. If you use separate paper, please note the number of each question and staple your answer sheets to the exam sheets. Please do your own work. If you have questions please do not hesitate to call me for clarification.

1. What was Tatian’s Diatessaron?

2. What kind of genre are the Gospels?

3. About how much of Mark also occurs in Matthew?

4. About how much of Mark also occurs in Luke?

5. What is meant by the term “triple tradition”?

6. What is Q supposed to be?

7. How much overlap is there between John and the other gospels?

8-9. What is the current consensus regarding the compilation of the gospels (who wrote first, who used whom, etc.)?

10. What is a pericope?

11-13. What are 3 of the 4 forms by which gospel stories are identified?

14-16. Define the following:

14. Form criticism

15. Redaction criticism

16. Literary criticism

17. What is meant by “implied reader”?

18. What are the origins of the 4 symbols used for each of the Gospels?

19-22. What came to be the dominant version of these symbols?

23. What is meant by a Markan “sandwich”?

24-25. What 2 themes appear in Matthew’s genealogy?

26. What is ‘M’?

27. According to Burridge, how many references to or quotations from the OT are found in Matthew?

28. How many passages in Matthew are introduced by the phrase “This was to fulfill what had been spoken through the prophet”?

29. How often does Luke refer to the Holy Spirit?

30. How many times is Jerusalem named in Luke?

31. According to Luke, who are the true heirs of Israel?

32. How many times does John use the term “disciple”?

33-34. What are the “book of signs” and the “book of glory”?

35. Which gospel emphasizes justice or righteousness?

36. Which gospel refers to the Kingdom of Heaven over 30 times?

37. From which gospel is the three year ministry of Jesus derived?

38. Which gospel is the only one to use the word “ecclesia”?

39. Which is the only gospel to identify Jesus as “the Lord” in his actual narrative?

40. Which gospel omits the institution of the Lord’s Supper?

41. Which gospel stresses the universal importance of Jesus?

42. Which Gospel presents Jesus as another Moses?

43. Which Gospel is marked by pace, vividness, and the word “euthus”?

44. Which Gospel presents Jesus as “Teacher of Israel”?

45. Which Gospel makes frequent use of “groups of three”?

46. In which Gospel is Jesus regularly addressed as teacher, even though it records little actual teaching?

47. Which Gospel emphasizes that Jesus is worshiped?

48. Which gospel refers to the threat of being put out of the synagogue?

49. Which Gospel refers to God as Father over 50 times?

50. Which gospel emphasizes contrasts such as light and dark, truth and falsehood, life and death?