Midterm Exam

This is an open-blog test :>)

True or False:

1) John is part of the Synoptic Gospels.

2) The epilogue (ending) of Mark is in question.  Different manuscripts offer different endings.

Multiple Choice:

3) Which Gospel's Commission offers the Trinitarian baptismal formula?
a) Matthew
b) Mark
c) Luke
d) John

4) Which Gospel's Commission emphasizes teaching and discipleship?
a) Matthew
b) Mark
c) Luke
d) John

5) Which Gospel's Commission relates forgiveness to spreading the Gospel?
a) Matthew
b) Mark
c) Luke
d) John
e) Luke and John

Please answer the following questions with a paragraph each:

6) Note some similarities and differences between the various Gospel traditions of the Great Commission.

7) As you have noticed, the Great Commission is set in the context of the Resurrection.  How does this affect the meaning of the Commission?  How are the two related?

Congratulations!  We are halfway through the semester!

Exercise #4: Your Answers

I will post here your analyses on the Resurrection.  Mine is done and Inger finished hers as well.  She actually changed up the way she did it so it made sense to her.  That's the idea!

Clay's Resurrection Synoptic Analysis

Inger's Resurrection Synoptic Analysis

Teri's Resurrection Synoptic Analysis

Collin's Resurrection Synoptic Analysis

Exercise #4: Synoptic Analysis

Resurrection Synoptic Analysis

Click the link above to download the Word document for this week's exercise.

I have already started for you, so you can see what you are supposed to do.  There is a legend on the upper right hand of the page for highlighting colors.

I highlighted a couple notes in light blue on the document itself, but allow me to explain here as well.  Words in italics are not exact matches but are related (if you are doing it by hand with colored pencils, then use a dashed underline to denote this).  Underlined words are words or phrases that have multiple matches but you can only highlight in one color (if you are using colored pencils by hand, denote this by underlining in two different colors.

When you're done, send me your completed docs and I'll post them for others to see.

Due by Monday, October 17

Have fun!

Exercise 3: Key Words & Key Verse

If you have finished your observations (feel free to do another set), we can now move to the second major category of the Inductive Method - Concentration (review all the steps of the method here).  The first couple steps in this category are in the exercise for this week.

Key Words: For each passage, list the words that you think are the most important in three categories: Primary (most important), Secondary (more important), Tertiary (important).  Hint: your primary words lists should be shorter than the others.

Key Verse:  For each passage, what is the key verse or phrase?  It should encapsulate the main point of the passage and/or summarize the main point.

Meeting Date Change!  In your syllabus, we were supposed to meet on October 16th, but I'm going to be out of town.  Instead, we will meet THIS SUNDAY, October 9 in my office at 8:45am.  See you then!