Chapter 2 Review

Question 0

What two developments in early Christianity created an issue of the canon for Christians?

Answer 0

(1) Some Christians were excluding writings from the apostolic tradition.
(2) Some Christians were producing new writings and attributing them to apostles.

Question 1

What term refers to a list of books that are officially accepted as scripture?

Answer 1

Canon

Question 2

Regarding the New Testament canon, most scholars would accept which two conclusions?

Answer 2

(1) All New Testament writings are compatible with “apostolic Christianity”.
(2) The New Testament writings present a variety of viewpoints.

Question 3

Text criticism is a scholarly discipline that…

Answer 3

Analyzes and compared New Testament manuscripts in order to reconstruct what the original manuscripts probably said.

Question 4

Which of the following would not be a subject of study in sociological criticism?

Answer 4

Variant readings of the New Testament manuscripts.

Question 5

Which of the following would not be a subject of study in narrative criticism?

Answer 5

Literary sources.

Question 6

Which of the following terms is not associated with form criticism?

Answer 6

Polyvalence

Question 7

Redaction criticism tries to determine the particular intentions of New Testament authors by analyzing how they…

Answer 7

Organized and edited their sources.

Question 8

Which of the following is not associated with rhetorical criticism?

Answer 8

Readers social location.

Question 9

What scholarly discipline is interested in the capacity of the New Testament texts to mean different things to different people and how the New Testament texts have been read throughout history?

Answer 9

Reader-Response Criticism.

Question 10

Which of the following is not an approach included in ideological criticism?

Answer 10

Sociological Criticism.

Question 11

What term is associated with postmodern philosophy and seeks to demonstrate the subjective nature of all interpretation and so holds all interpretations equally valid?

Answer 11

Deconstruction

Question 12

What term refers to the scholarly study of the Bible with an emphasis on the explication of texts using various academic approaches?

Answer 12

Exegesis.

Question 13

What term refers to the philosophical reflection on the process of interpretation?

Answer 13

Hermeneutics.