1.What term is used to describe the handwritten copies of the Bible from antiquity? 2.What is the discipline of textual criticism ?

1.     What term is used to describe the handwritten copies of the Bible from antiquity?

2.     What is the discipline of textual criticism?

3.     What are the four types of manuscripts that attest to the New Testament? What are the distinctive features of each?

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4.     Besides the manuscript evidence, what other types of evidence exist for the New Testament?

5.     What is hermeneutics?

6.     What is historical criticism? What are the assumptions of this discipline?

7.     What are the three basic aspects of hermeneutics?

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8.     What is genre? Why is it important for the study of the New Testament?

9.     What is the meaning of the term synoptic?

10. Which three gospels are considered Synoptic Gospels?

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11.  What is the synoptic problem?

12. What is form criticism? What is its foundational assumption?

13. Who is Rudolf Bultmann? Why is he an important figure in New Testament studies?

14. What is redaction criticism? What is its foundational assumption?

15. What is the meaning of the term Sitz im Liben? How is it employed in form criticism? How is it employed in redaction criticism?

16. What are the four distinctions between form criticism and redaction criticism suggested by the authors in the section "The Rise of Redaction Criticism"?

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17. What is narrative criticism? What is its foundational assumption?

18. What is a reader-response theory of interpretation?

19. What is rhetorical criticism?

20. What is deconstructionism?

21. What does the distinction between the Jesus of History and Christ of Faith mean in terms of modern historical-critical study of the New Testament? What are its assumptions?

22. What is the first Quest for the Historical Jesus? What characterizes this quest?

23. What is the New Quest? What characterizes this quest?

24. What is the Third Quest? What characterizes this quest?

The responses for the following questions can be found in "Introduction to the New Testament" by Keathley, in Concise New Testament Survey located on Bible.org (2004), in the assigned readings for Topic 1.

25. Are the New Testament writings written with purely historical-factual concerns? What is the nature of the New Testament writings?

26. What is the meaning of the term New Testament?

27. How does the Greek language provide preparation for the coming of Christ?

28. How does the Roman Empire provide a preparation for the coming of Christ?

29. What are the three major literary types represented in the New Testament?

30. List some of the distinctive purposes for each literary group.