Gospel (Exam 2)

NT Glover - Exam 2

Gospel (translated)

“Evangelion” = good news

Gospels

• presentations of the life of Jesus of Nazareth

• includes stories of His adulthood, death, resurrection

• Matthew, Markm, Luke, and John all represent different selections and presentations of Jesus’ life

• ancient GR biographies

Gospel as bioi

• NOT objective, historical accounts of Jesus’ life

• are historical but considered biographical

• focused on portraying a certain character more than historical accuracy

  • common and expected at the time

• biographies were written like a story to display moralities that the reader should follow

the Synoptics

• matthew, mark, and luke

• contain exorcisims, parables, terse-expressions/one-liners, and the “human-side'“ of Jesus aka Low christology

• Jesus is NOT self-referential

synoptic (definition)

“seen together”

• all gospels have similar perspectives and elements and can be compared columnally with generally the same order

John (special)

• the “spiritual” gospel aka high christology

• NO exorcisms, parables, or short one-liners

• long discourses, metaphorical and opaque language

• Jesus is very self-referential

(7) literary forms in the gospel

• parables (40+ in the synoptics only)

• miracle stories

• pronouncement stories

• individual sayings aka apopthegms

• apocalyptic discourse

• farewell testament/address

• passion and resurrection narratives