A) Bruce Chilton B) James H. Charlesworth C) Maurice Casey D) Joseph Fitzmyer
A) Professor of New Testament Greek B) Director of Christian Origins C) Reader in early Jewish and Christian studies D) Chair of Semitic Languages
A) Four B) Two C) Five D) Three
A) The grammar of the Dead Sea Scrolls B) The life and times of Jesus C) Prior investigations of the Aramaic substratum of the Gospels D) Academic reviews of Mark's Gospel
A) The historical context of John the Baptist B) The translation errors in the Gospel of Mark C) The theology of the Passover D) Casey's methodology for reconstructing possible Aramaic sources
A) Inscriptions from first-century Roman monuments B) The Targums from the medieval period C) Written Aramaic found in the contemporaneous Dead Sea Scrolls D) Syriac translations of the Old Testament
A) Chapters 1 to 3 B) Chapters 5 to 7 C) Chapters 2 to 4 D) Chapters 3 to 6
A) Mark 14:12-26 B) Mark 9:11-13 C) Mark 2:23-3:6 D) Mark 10:35-45
A) Mark 10:35-45 B) Mark 2:23-3:6 C) Mark 9:11-13 D) Mark 14:12-26
A) Peter and Andrew B) Thomas and Philip C) James and Matthew D) Jacob and John
A) Mark 10:35-45 B) Mark 14:12-26 C) Mark 2:23-3:6 D) Mark 9:11-13
A) Proving Mark wrote his Gospel in Rome B) Establishing the authorship of the Dead Sea Scrolls C) Dating the Greek Gospel of Mark to 70 C.E. D) Dating the putative written Aramaic source for Mark to around 40 C.E.
A) Bruce Chilton B) James H. Charlesworth C) Maurice Casey D) Joseph Fitzmyer
A) Catholic University of America B) Princeton Theological Seminary C) Bard College D) University of Nottingham
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) Catholic University of America C) University of Nottingham D) Bard College
A) It relied too heavily on the New Testament Greek B) It was completely flawed and outdated C) It was identical to nineteenth-century theories D) It was an improvement over earlier work
A) The excessive amount of manuscripts to analyze B) The absence of the Book of Mark in the early church C) The paucity of evidence on how Aramaic was being rendered into Greek in the first century D) The lack of any Dead Sea Scrolls mentioning Jesus
A) How one can discern between oral or written sources behind the Gospels B) How to date the death of John the Baptist precisely C) How to prove Paul read the Gospel of Mark D) How to translate Greek into modern English accurately
A) How reliable the Greek alphabet is for Semitic phonetics B) How reliable the Catholic Church is in preserving texts C) How reliable the Roman historians were regarding Pontius Pilate D) How reliable either source might be in representing Jesus' putative Aramaic |