NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES
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Q1 in Section A might award 8 marks for 200 words on an aspect of a topic (eg the cultural context of the New Testament)
Q2 might award 12 marks for 400 words assessing a particular argument (eg how to interpret the Prologue to John's Gospel) Q3(a) in Section B might award 10 marks for 350 words clarifying the ideas in an extract from the anthology; Q3(b) might award 20 marks for 700 words analysing the implications of the extract
Question 4 in Section C might award 30 marks for 1000 words evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of a broad area of the New Testament (like the miracles of Jesus)
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DEATH & RESURRECTION OF JESUS
The Kingdom of God in Luke's Gospel
Why Did Jesus have to Die?
Crucifixion & Resurrection in Luke's Gospel
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CRITICAL CHALLENGES
Scientific & historical challenges
How Should We Live?
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Raymond Brown: An American Catholic Priest who pioneered liberal Bible criticism, questioned whether the Bible was inerrant (without error) and studied the New Testament in an historical context.
Morna Hooker: A British theologian and Methodist preacher whose essays in the 1970s criticised the fashionable project to try to find "the historical Jesus" by analysing the New Testament.
Ellis Rivkin: An American Jewish scholar of the Bible. Rivkin challenged the idea (promoted by Johns Gospel in particular) that the Jewish authorities were responsible for Jesus' crucifixion.
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R. Alan Culpepper: An American Southern Baptist theologian who specialises in John's Gospel and the importance of Jesus' "Passion" - his sufferings leading up to his death and Resurrection.
I. Howard Marshall: A Scottish theologian and Evangelical Methodist who specialised in studying Luke's Gospel and the Book of Acts (by the same author as Luke). He criticised the idea that Jesus might have been a myth.
Albert Schweitzer: A Swiss-German musician, theologian and Nobel Prize-winner whose Quest For The Historical Jesus (1906) changed the way scholars understood the context of Jesus' teaching.
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C.H. Dodd: A Welsh Bible scholar who promoted a "realised eschatology", which is the idea that instead of predicting the future, Jesus' pronouncements on eternal life and God's Kingdom are about the present.
Frank Matera: Another American Catholic priest and scholar who specialises in Paul's theology and writes about the meaning of Christ's resurrection for Christian believers in the world today.
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EXTRACT #1
Matthew 1:18 - 2:23: The birth of Jesus in Matthew's Gospel.
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EXTRACT #2
John 1:1-18: The Prologue to John's Gospel
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EXTRACT #3
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EXTRACT #4
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EXTRACT #5
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EXTRACT #6
John 2:12–25, 5:16–47, 7:25–52, 8:12–59, 9:13–34, 10:22–42, 11:45–57, 18:1–19:16: Jesus' authority in John
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EXTRACT #7
Luke 23:26–24:53: The Crucifixion and Resurrection in Luke
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EXTRACT #8
Extract from Who Moved the Stone? by Frank Morison, arguing that the Resurrection was a historical fact
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EXTRACT #9
Extract from Jesus - The Evidence by Ian Wilson, giving an overview of arguments about the Resurrection
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EXTRACT #10
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