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A) It was completely flawed and outdated B) It was an improvement over earlier work C) It relied too heavily on the New Testament Greek D) It was identical to nineteenth-century theories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