New Testament Exam 2 - Form Criticism

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Who developed Form Criticism?

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Martin Dibelius and Rudolf Bultmann

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When did Dibelius and Bultmann develop Form Criticism?

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Between 1919 and 1921

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What was the purpose of Form Criticism?

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To study and understand the Synoptic Gospel material as a depth beyond that proposed by Source Criticism

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Who had used the methodology earlier?

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Herman Gunkel to classify the Psalms

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What is the basic assumption of Form Criticism?

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Behind the Gospel narratives as we now have them lie folk or oral traditions which developed within the church between the Incarnation (4BC - 33AD) and the writing down of these events in the Gospels (60AD and afterward)

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What do Form Critics attempt to classify?

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The various units of oral traditions now extant in the Gospel narratives according to general categories

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What were the five categories Dibelius classified them as?

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1. Paradigm
2. Novelle
3. Legend
4. Parenesis
5. Myth

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After classification, what do Form Critics attempt to postulate?

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The life situation within the church which affected the form or created it entirely and caused it to be preserved and handed down as tradition

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According to Form Critics, what is the geographical and chronological sequence of a given Gospel considered?

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To be the work of the author of the Gospel as a framework or setting for the pericopes and therefore has no value as biography

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Why are supernatural events denied?

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On the basis of modern experience and explained as symbolic language used by precritical people to explain their world

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What is the definition of Form Criticism?

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That methodology which aims to identify the "form" i.e. the literary structure or genre, which the Gospel sections (pericopes) had during the oral, pre-document period (30-60AD) and to assign them to their proper life situations (Sitz in Leben) as determined by the function they served in the Christian community

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Why did this discipline develop?

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Due to the perceived limitations of Source Criticism

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What does it mean that Form Critics deny the historicity of Mark?

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Historical and geographical data is useless and inaccurate, since they also believe that other gospels were based upon Mark, all the other gospels are in error

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What does it mean that Form Critics believe that the Gospels proclaim a Christ of faith and not a Jesus of history?

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The Christ of faith is the Jesus of history. They claim that Jesus never claimed to be the Christ.

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What does it mean that Form Critics believe the two-source hypothesis is assumed for the written period?

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These sources are Mark and Q. This means that any error in Mark is carried over to others

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What does it mean that Form Critics believe that during the pre-document period (30-60AD) the traditions of Jesus circulated orally as independent units?

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These are called periocpe.

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What does it mean that Form Critics believe that pericopes took on identifiable forms?

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This happened during the oral period and the forms (genre of literature) were according to the functions they performed in the church

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What does it mean that Form Critics believe that the Gospel writers collected and arranged stories into a narrative?

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The narrative reflected the interest and needs of the Christian community

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What does Form Criticism seek to identify?

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Which sayings of Jesus are authentic (the Jesus of history) and which are the creation of the Christian community