Encountering the New Testament

Chapters 1-16

In ancient times the three major sections of the Old Testament were the

Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings

The five books of Moses are called

the Torah

The word that means solemn declaration is

testament

 The books that provide useful historical and religious information but are not inspired are called

the Apocrypha

Apart from spiritual reasons, the Bible is also significant for

its divine origin

The four major kinds of writing in the New Testament are

the Gospels, the book of Acts, the 21 letters, and the book of prophecy

The Jewish historian who confirmed a unified and recognized body of writing known as the Old Testament is

Josephus

The coming together of God and human writers in the composition of the Bible is called

concursus

An authoritative collection of documents is called

canon

The earliest manuscripts of the New Testament were written on

papyrus

Blank, blank, and blank all identified Matthew as the author of the Gospel bearing his name.

Irenaeus, Origen, and Eusebius

The date for Matthew has been placed at A.D 40 by New Testament scholar

John Wenham

The three locations suggested as the place where Matthew was written are

Antioch of Syria, Palestine, and blank

Matthews purpose for preserving the Gospel was to preserve the truth about

the words and life of Jesus

Every event in the life of Christ was a fulfillment of the Old Testament blank

prophecy

Matthew introduces Jesus to his readers as the blank & blank, two Old Testament figures.

the Son of David and the Son of Abraham

In regard to sin, demons, and nature, Jesus was the

supreme authority.

When Jesus was at the city of blank, he announced that he would build his church.

Caesarea Philippi

The Gospel of Mark contains blank chapters

16

Extrabiblical sources written before blank attest to the Gospel of Mark.

A.D 325

In writing his Gospel, Mark did not attempt to have a connected

chronological narrative. Order not accuracy.

Mark obtained the information about Jesus in his Gospel from the apostle

Peter

The Gospel of Mark was written for the audience of

Gentiles.

Mark highlights parts of Jesus’ life that prove him to be

the Son of God, the great servant-preacher who is ushering in God’s saving reign, the kingdom of God.

The central theme of the Gospel of Mark is the blank nature of Jesus.

supernatural

The Gospel of Mark begins and ends with a

confession

The only group that rejected Jesus’ divine nature was the

religious leaders.

The supreme acts of establishing God’s kingdom were Jesus’

death and resurrection.

Part of handling the New Testament properly is understanding blank to it.

modern approaches

Scholars like Augustine, Calvin, Luther, Bengel, and Wesley struggle to interpret the Bible in a

reasoned and intellectually responsible fashion

Voltaire, Paine, and Woolston helped destroy respect for the Bible’s truth in Western society by encouraging excessive

criticism

The theory and practice of interpretation is called

hermeneutics

An essential assumption for interpreting the New Testament data is that the New Testament must be seen as

divine revelation

The major condition affecting interpretation is the interpreter’s position on the

authority of Scripture

In addition to the various methods to be used in interpretation, it is important to recognize the need for

aims

The aims for interpretation should be

personal, doxological, and missiological

Recovering the text’s original meaning is called

exegesis.

For every believer, developing an appropriate hermeneutic should be a

lifelong process