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A) It was completely flawed and outdated B) It was an improvement over earlier work C) It relied too heavily on the New Testament Greek D) It was identical to nineteenth-century theories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