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18 Cards in this Set
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Euangelion
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Greek word for "gospel" and "good news"
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Literary genre
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type of piece of writing
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Salvation history
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the story of Jesus within this vast panorama
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Oral tradition
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those who heard Jesus teach or preach and saw the events in His life passed on their stories of Jesus to others by word of mouth
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Synoptic Gospels
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Matthew, Mark, and Luke
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Synoptic problem
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There must be some sort of connection between one Gospel and another. But what exactly is this connection? This problem is known as:
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Two-source hypothesis
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the dominant scholarly hypothesis today is that Mark was the first Gospel to be written and that Matthew and Luke were dependent on the texts of Mark and "Q" as sources
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Form Criticism
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Noting the different types of material used within individual units in a Gospel: parables, proverbs, miracle stories, controversy stories, beatitudes, woes, eschataological discourse, passion narrative, and so on
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Redaction criticism
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when authors edited, adapted, and arranged older materials to fit their theological purposes
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Narrative criticism
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understanding its story line, characters, symbols, and everything else that will enable us to enter fully into the narrative world of that Gospel
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Quest of the historical Jesus
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using the historical critical method to establish facts about Jesus
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Virgin Birth
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The gospels and Paul agree that Jesus had a human birth but was also the Son of God
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Herod the Great
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King over Palestine in 37-4 BC (Jesus birth)
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Bethlehem
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Where Jesus was born
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Nazareth
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Where Mary, Jospeph, and Jesus lived when He was small
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Archelaus
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Son of Herod, reason Jesus and family went to Nazareth
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Christology
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question of who Jesus is
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Docetists
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early Christians who believed that Jesus merely appeared to be human, but in reality was not
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