A) Written proto-gospels B) The canonical gospels C) Testimonia collections D) Oral stories and teachings of Jesus
A) They definitely circulated as written notes B) They were exclusively preserved as testimonia C) They were written down by early Christian communities D) There is no incontrovertible evidence they circulated as written narratives
A) As an oral work involving a speaker and a writer B) As a purely written document created by a scribe C) As a transcript of a single sermon D) As a work composed entirely by a community
A) It was a seamless continuation B) It was impossible to achieve C) It represented a break in transmission D) It strengthened the oral memory
A) James Dunn and Rafael Rodriguez B) Werner Kelber and Chris Keith C) Robyn Faith Walsh and Jonathan Z. Smith D) Helen Bond and Burkett
A) They all contain the same number of chapters B) They are highly interdependent C) They were written by the same author D) They were written at the same time
A) Mark was the first to be written B) Luke was the first to be written C) Matthew was the first to be written D) John was the first to be written
A) Matthew and Luke used Mark and a hypothetical Q source B) Matthew and Luke used oral tradition only C) Matthew and Luke used Mark and John D) Matthew and Luke were written independently of Mark
A) Reliance on hypothetical sources B) Lack of creative agency C) Adherence to community dictates D) Authorial activity
A) Common tradition was transmitted orally rather than through a lost document B) Common tradition was written down by an elite agency C) Common tradition was invented by the author of Matthew D) Common tradition was transmitted through the Q source
A) Robyn Faith Walsh B) Werner Kelber C) Chris Keith D) James Dunn
A) Uneducated peasants B) An elite audience C) Early Christian communities D) The Roman authorities
A) It is the source for the Q document B) It is widely accepted as fact C) It was written by Luke D) There is a scholarly turn against it
A) John is the oldest gospel B) John is independent of all other gospels C) John relies exclusively on oral tradition D) John was aware of the Synoptic gospels
A) The elite agency theory B) The Oral Transmission hypothesis C) The Q source hypothesis D) Farrer and Matthean Posteriority
A) Hermann Gunkel B) Birger Gerhardsson C) Werner Kelber D) Bart Ehrman
A) Logia B) Collegium C) Biosphere D) Sitz im Leben
A) Richard Bauckham B) Kenneth Bailey C) James Dunn D) Bart Ehrman
A) Hermann Gunkel B) Kenneth Bailey C) NT Wright D) Anthony Le Donne
A) The replacement of orality by text B) The total absence of teachers C) A single written source D) Designated learned individuals
A) Alan Kirk B) James Dunn C) Richard Horsley D) Tucker Ferda
A) The 20th century B) The 19th century C) The 21st century D) The 18th century |