A) Bruce Chilton B) Joseph Fitzmyer C) Maurice Casey D) James H. Charlesworth
A) Director of Christian Origins B) Professor of New Testament Greek C) Chair of Semitic Languages D) Reader in early Jewish and Christian studies
A) Five B) Two C) Three D) Four
A) The life and times of Jesus B) Prior investigations of the Aramaic substratum of the Gospels C) Academic reviews of Mark's Gospel D) The grammar of the Dead Sea Scrolls
A) The theology of the Passover B) The historical context of John the Baptist C) The translation errors in the Gospel of Mark D) Casey's methodology for reconstructing possible Aramaic sources
A) Inscriptions from first-century Roman monuments B) Syriac translations of the Old Testament C) Written Aramaic found in the contemporaneous Dead Sea Scrolls D) The Targums from the medieval period
A) Chapters 3 to 6 B) Chapters 5 to 7 C) Chapters 2 to 4 D) Chapters 1 to 3
A) Mark 2:23-3:6 B) Mark 9:11-13 C) Mark 14:12-26 D) Mark 10:35-45
A) Mark 10:35-45 B) Mark 2:23-3:6 C) Mark 14:12-26 D) Mark 9:11-13
A) Thomas and Philip B) Jacob and John C) James and Matthew D) Peter and Andrew
A) Mark 10:35-45 B) Mark 14:12-26 C) Mark 9:11-13 D) Mark 2:23-3:6
A) Dating the putative written Aramaic source for Mark to around 40 C.E. B) Establishing the authorship of the Dead Sea Scrolls C) Proving Mark wrote his Gospel in Rome D) Dating the Greek Gospel of Mark to 70 C.E.
A) Joseph Fitzmyer B) James H. Charlesworth C) Bruce Chilton D) Maurice Casey
A) University of Nottingham B) Catholic University of America C) Princeton Theological Seminary D) Bard College
A) Claimed the book lacked any academic value B) Generally agrees with the central contention of the book C) Completely rejected the methodology D) Argued that the source was Hebrew, not Aramaic
A) Princeton Theological Seminary B) University of Nottingham C) Catholic University of America D) Bard College
A) It was identical to nineteenth-century theories B) It was an improvement over earlier work C) It was completely flawed and outdated D) It relied too heavily on the New Testament Greek
A) The lack of any Dead Sea Scrolls mentioning Jesus B) The excessive amount of manuscripts to analyze C) The absence of the Book of Mark in the early church D) The paucity of evidence on how Aramaic was being rendered into Greek in the first century
A) How to prove Paul read the Gospel of Mark B) How to translate Greek into modern English accurately C) How one can discern between oral or written sources behind the Gospels D) How to date the death of John the Baptist precisely
A) How reliable the Greek alphabet is for Semitic phonetics B) How reliable either source might be in representing Jesus' putative Aramaic C) How reliable the Catholic Church is in preserving texts D) How reliable the Roman historians were regarding Pontius Pilate |