New Testament 1 Essay
Saturday, 09 April, 2005
Which one would you pick?
- What can we learn about Jesus' self-understanding from Mark's Gospel?
- In what ways is Peter's confession at Caesarea Philippi a turning point for the ministry of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark?
- What do the female characters of Mark's Gospel contribute to its communication of the message of the kingdom?
- Compare and contrast the teaching of Luke and Matthew on the Gentiles.
- How would you account for the differences between the accounts of Jesus' resurrection in Mark and Luke?
- To whom is Paul speaking in Romans 2.1-5?
- How important is Adam in the argument of Romans?
- How does Paul explain Israel's unbelief despite being recipients of promise in chapters 9–11?
- How does Romans 12-15 relate to the rest of the letter?
- Why does Paul write to the Romans? Answer this question with specific reference to Chapters 1 and 15.
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The ones I would be interested in writing on are: 1, 7, 8.
1 because I take it that Jesus understands who he is and what his mission is, but I don’t know how that works itself out, so it would be interested to go through Mark, pick out instances, and glue them together in my head.
7 because I love the argument in Romans 5, and there’s inteesting things to play with with Adam forecasting Jesus (in a symbol kinda way).
8 because I like Paul’ arguments in Romans (see 7) and also because I think it’s really powerful how we are the true Israel through adoption through faith, while the sons of the flesh are not sons in truth (necessarily).
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I wouldn’t do 6. Historically, there’s been too much debate for me to feel comfortable expressing a strong opinion either way, and besides I can’t really make a decision either way.
(4) I know it is said Luke is for Gentiles and Matthews is for Jews (it says so in my PTC notes!). But I feel I’d need to know my OT Law a lot better to realise how much Matthew alludes to Jewish custom/practice/tradition/thinking.
- Haoran the verbose
I would do (1), because (a) this is an interesting topic that I haven’t heard too much about in sermons etc., but what I have heard has been extremely interesting, and (b) there’s a few issues to cover to answer this question, thus making it easy to well-structure the essay. First you have to establish and defend what Jesus’ self-understanding was, then deduce what we can learn from this.
NT Wright has written some interesting things about this issue, also. (Mwahahah.)
I think (2). You could talk about how afterwards Jesus is headed towards Jerusalem. You could compare and contrast it with the Centurion’s confession. And you could discuss how it lays the foundation for the various predictions that Jesus makes of his death.
(2) looked rather intimidating, to tell you the truth! I’m doing (1) and Deb, if you’re referring to Jesus and the Victory of God stuff in NT Wright, I’ve read it and I feel like I disagree with him but I can’t say why :(
I’ve not read that one; I was referring to a few things I’ve read online. The only book of his I’ve read is The Challenge of Jesus (and found it beautifully written and helpful). Talk more about such things later, eh?
Will put that one on my conversation menu for the weekend I see you.