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  • 1. According to Burkett, what was the first stage in the formation of the gospels?
A) Testimonia collections
B) Written proto-gospels
C) The canonical gospels
D) Oral stories and teachings of Jesus
  • 2. What does Chris Keith argue regarding gospel traditions prior to Mark?
A) They were exclusively preserved as testimonia
B) They definitely circulated as written notes
C) There is no incontrovertible evidence they circulated as written narratives
D) They were written down by early Christian communities
  • 3. How does Nicholas Elder describe the Gospel of Mark?
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
  • 4. What did Werner Kelber argue about the transition from oral to written gospels?
A) It was a seamless continuation
B) It strengthened the oral memory
C) It represented a break in transmission
D) It was impossible to achieve
  • 5. Who argues that Mark largely preserved the Jesus tradition back to his lifetime?
A) James Dunn and Rafael Rodriguez
B) Helen Bond and Burkett
C) Werner Kelber and Chris Keith
D) Robyn Faith Walsh and Jonathan Z. Smith
  • 6. Why are Mark, Matthew, and Luke called the Synoptic Gospels?
A) They were written at the same time
B) They all contain the same number of chapters
C) They are highly interdependent
D) They were written by the same author
  • 7. What is the consensus regarding the chronological order of the gospels?
A) John was the first to be written
B) Luke was the first to be written
C) Matthew was the first to be written
D) Mark was the first to be written
  • 8. What does the Two-source hypothesis state?
A) Matthew and Luke were written independently of Mark
B) Matthew and Luke used oral tradition only
C) Matthew and Luke used Mark and John
D) Matthew and Luke used Mark and a hypothetical Q source
  • 9. What has modern scholarship emphasized regarding the evangelists?
A) Reliance on hypothetical sources
B) Authorial activity
C) Lack of creative agency
D) Adherence to community dictates
  • 10. What does the Oral Transmission hypothesis propose?
A) Common tradition was written down by an elite agency
B) Common tradition was transmitted orally rather than through a lost document
C) Common tradition was transmitted through the Q source
D) Common tradition was invented by the author of Matthew
  • 11. Who proposed the thesis viewing gospel authors as elite cultural producers?
A) Werner Kelber
B) James Dunn
C) Robyn Faith Walsh
D) Chris Keith
  • 12. According to Robyn Faith Walsh, who was the intended audience for the gospels?
A) An elite audience
B) Uneducated peasants
C) The Roman authorities
D) Early Christian communities
  • 13. What is Helen Bond's view on the 'pre-Markan passion narrative'?
A) It is widely accepted as fact
B) It was written by Luke
C) It is the source for the Q document
D) There is a scholarly turn against it
  • 14. What does recent scholarship argue about the Gospel of John?
A) John is independent of all other gospels
B) John relies exclusively on oral tradition
C) John is the oldest gospel
D) John was aware of the Synoptic gospels
  • 15. Which theories emphasize the Synoptic Problem as a literary problem?
A) Farrer and Matthean Posteriority
B) The elite agency theory
C) The Oral Transmission hypothesis
D) The Q source hypothesis
  • 16. Which scholar argued that early Christians used strict memorization based on Rabbinic methods?
A) Birger Gerhardsson
B) Werner Kelber
C) Hermann Gunkel
D) Bart Ehrman
  • 17. What term refers to the 'situation in life' that gave rise to a written passage?
A) Collegium
B) Logia
C) Biosphere
D) Sitz im Leben
  • 18. Who famously compared the process of oral tradition to the 'Telephone Game'?
A) Kenneth Bailey
B) Bart Ehrman
C) Richard Bauckham
D) James Dunn
  • 19. Which scholar developed the method of form criticism?
A) Anthony Le Donne
B) Hermann Gunkel
C) NT Wright
D) Kenneth Bailey
  • 20. According to James Dunn, what ensured the accuracy of oral gospel traditions?
A) Designated learned individuals
B) The replacement of orality by text
C) A single written source
D) The total absence of teachers
  • 21. Who criticized Bart Ehrman for a 'lethal oversight' regarding Jan Vansina?
A) James Dunn
B) Tucker Ferda
C) Alan Kirk
D) Richard Horsley
  • 22. Which century was dominated by the form criticism of Dibelius and Bultmann?
A) The 20th century
B) The 19th century
C) The 18th century
D) The 21st century
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