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Hooker: Collectivist view of suffering servant

'never said his servant suffers willingly'

Fuller: Jesus is the suffering servant

Jesus in Mark 'a clear description of the suffering servant of Isaiah 53'

Hooker: view of John's prologue (2 quotes)

'Gigantic take over battle'

'key'

Stanton: view of John's prologue

'lens'

Smalley: view of John's prologue

'Microcosm'

Robinson: view of John's prologue

'porch'

Dodd: Context of 'I am'

2nd century cite 'ego eimi' as the I AM or Lord.

Barrett: Context of ‘I am’

'I am is the divine word of self-revelation and command.'

Hunter: Authenticity of discourses

'genuine tradition of an aspect of Jesus'

Barrett: Authenticity of discourses

‘reflect the debates that were taking place between Christians and Jews'

Bultmann: Bread of life RT

Jesus replaces Manna and becomes the gift himself

Scholar for ending Bread of Life as genuine

Brown

Scholar against ending Bread of Life as genuine

Bultmann

Mastin: Light of the world

Jesus being the true light links to the illumination of the tabernacle

Brown: Light of the world

the pharisees are seen as malevolent

Grayston: Good shepherd

‘ironically Jesus is seen as stealing sheep from Jews'

Barrett: Good Shepherd

dying shepherd 'based specifically on the crucifixion as a known historical fact'

Bultmann: True vine

'promise yet threat'

Marsh: True vine

'sacramental overtones'

Brown: Son of God (title)

‘High Christology… includes an aspect of divinity'

Erhman: Son of God (title)

'Christology of exaltation vs Christology of incarnation'

Brown: Son of man scholar (title)

low Christology covers the evaluation of him in terms which don't include divinity

Goulder: Water to wine

The text is actually referring to the 6th day of creation (the marriage of Adam+Eve) and 'the third day' is foreshadowing the resurrection.

Hunter: Water to Wine

‘Gladdening wine of Christianity'

Dodd: Healing at the pool

against the Law 'is set the life giving words of Christ'

Barrett: Feeding 5000

links to Elisha feeding 100 in 2 King

Marsh: Feeding 5000

Mountain linked to 'sermon on the mount' in Matthew, making Jesus the new Moses.

Barrett: Walks on water

'Both Luke and Mark intended to record this as a miracle.'

Dodd: Man born blind

When the man is interrogated Jesus is the 'defendant proper'

Marsh: Raises Lazarus from the dead

'It is improbable that John means the reader to understand that Jesus delayed the miracle deliberately until Lazarus died, in order to work a more notable miracle.'

Synoptic problem

Farmer

Synoptic gospels

Griesbach

2 source Hypothesis

Farrer-Goulder

4 source Hypothesis

Streeter

Drane: Probability of Q

'balance of probability lies in believing that Q was a real gospel'

Pericopae

Schmidt

Stanton: Kerygma

'should not… be seen as memoirs or records'

Bultmann: Kerygma

'developed out of kerygma'

Redaction: mark

Wrede: Messianic secret

Redaction: Luke

Conzelmann

Redaction: Matthew

Bornkamm

Carson: Textual criticism

‘Never is a doctrine affected'

Stanton: description of John's gospel

'A pool in which a child may wade and an elephant may swim'

Smalley: messiah (purpose)

'his readers may have eyes to see that Jesus is the life giving messiah'

Dodd: Son of God (purpose)

Jesus belongs 'to a different order of being… outside the range of temporal regulation'

Tasker: Life in his name (purpose)

'His whole incarnate life is … meaningless apart from the "hour" to which it is inevitably moving'

Westcott: Spiritual (purpose)

'the latest Gospel reveals the facts in light of their interpretation.'

Tasker: Son of man (purpose)

Tasker: 'it is on the true humanity of the Saviour that this evangelist throughout his Gospel lays great stress'

Irenaeus: John the Apostle (Authorship)

'John… and himself issued the Gospel at Ephesus'

Tasker: John the Apostle (Authorship)

John is not the actual author, he maybe told the story to someone else who wrote it down.

Westcott: Beloved Disciple (authorship)

Beloved disciple is a Jew, eyewitness, and disciple so John makes sense

Papias: Elder John (authorship)

John lived through the reign of Trajan and wrote the two epistles 2 John and 3 John

Bultmann: Johannine Community (authorship)

ecclesiastical redactor behind the final editorial work.

Marsh: Johannine Community (authorship)

'The identity of the author must remain… wrapped to anonymity'

Rivkin: Political expediency (conflict)

'Jesus was killed for political reasons, not religious ones'

Hooker: Blasphemy (conflict)

'worship of Judaism is condemned by Jesus and brought to a standstill'

Culpepper: Christology (conflict)

'unbelief is the real opponent'

William Lane Craig: For resurrection as miracle

'I see no reason whatsoever to think that it's improbable that God raises Jesus'

Hume: Against resurrection as miracle

'deceive or deceived', stories from 'ignorant and barbarous nations'

Bahrdt: For Swoon Hypothesis

Disciples gave Jesus a pill/drug that brought on a near death state, then the Essenes revived him

Paulus: For Swoon Hypothesis

Jesus awoke from his coma naturally because of the tombs cold air

Strauss: Against Swoon Hypothesis

'a being who had stolen half dead was unlikely to return to full life'

Strauss: For resurrection as myth

'Christian ideas formulated in unintentionally poeticizing sagas and looking very like history'

Muller: Against resurrection as myth

myths arise in 'the mysterious gloom of grey antiquity'

Renan: For event in view of disciples

'resuscitated Jesus in their hearts'

Kent: For event in view of disciples

'normal grief related hallucinations'

Kiem: For event in view of disciples

‘telegram from heaven'

Origen: Against event in view of disciples

Disciples were 'neither mentally unbalanced nor delirious'

William Lane Craig: Against event in view of disciples

'no conceivable reason for skipping the physical miracle of a resurrection and befuddling his earnest followers'

How does Barth say we can know God?

'It is by the grace of God that God is knowable to us'

What does Barth say about scripture and revelation?

'Scripture does indeed bear witness to revelation, but it is not revelation itself'

What does Bultmann say about the modern world and the bible?

'We cannot use electric lights and… at the same time believe in the spirit'

Dodd: 10 minas

delayed Parousia

Marshall: KoG in Luke?

'Luke associates the coming of the Kingdom of God not only with the preaching but also with the mighty works of Jesus'

Schweitzer: Imminent Parousia

Jesus' teachings on KoG was 'a call to repentance before an imminent end'

Dodd: Realised Eschatology

KoG already present in Jesus through his miracles, a gift to the poor and those currently on earth

Schweitzer: Realised Eschatology

Jesus taught an immediate coming of the Kingdom.

Marshall: Inaugarated Eschatology

'while Luke retains the hope of the future coming of the kingdom, he also stresses the kingdom has a reality in the ministry of Jesus'

Kraemer: Exclusivist view of salvation

Only Christians can go to Heaven, there's no middle ground.

Prothero: Exclusivist view of salvation

'It is comforting to pretend all the great religions make up one big happy family… is neither accurate nor ethically responsible'

Rahner: Inclusivist view of salvation

'anonymous Christians'

Pluralist view of salvation

Hick

Matera: Sermon on the plain (2 quotes)

'focuses on the need to extend love to all'

'human judgement is flawed because it cannot fully understand the heart and motives of others'

Matera: Rich Man and Lazarus

Pharisees are 'lovers of money who are more concerned with external appearances than spiritual life'

Marshall: Interpreting ethics of Jesus

'we do recognise that we are to listen to it in a different way from original hearers'

Matera: ethics of Jesus

'The gospel of Luke addresses a new situation in which the Gentiles play a dominant role in the church'