Historical Jesus Pre-Assessment

This way of reading the Scriptures helps us read the New Testament knowing that each type of writing has different rules of writing and ways of conveying truth.

• Source Criticism

• Form Criticism

• Historical Criticism

• Redaction Criticism

This method of reading Scripture attempts to identify the source or sources that the writer used to compose the book.

• Source Criticism

• Form Criticism

• Composition Criticism

• Redaction Criticism

This method of reading Scripture compares changes and mistakes by scribes and translators through the centuries.

• Source Criticism

• Form Criticism

• Apology Criticism

• Redaction Criticism

This method of reading Scripture compares changes and mistakes by scribes and translators through the centuries.

• Source Criticism

• Form Criticism

• Textual Criticism

• Redaction Criticism

This method of reading Scripture asks how and why the composers arranged their sources the way that they did.

• Source Criticism

• Form Criticism

• Textual Criticism

• Redaction Criticism

We use the term to describe Matthew, Mark, Luke, John because it literally translates "preacher of the Gospel."

• Evangelist

• Synoptic

• Prophet

• Septuagint

He was Roman historian who reports the famous fire that broke out in Rome under the reign of emperor Nero.

• Tacitus

• Suetonius

• Pliny the Younger

• Josephus

He describes the rule of Pontius Pilate and describes Jesus as a wise man and a doer of wonderful works.

• Tacitus

• Suetonius

• Pliny the Younger

• Josephus

He wrote a long letter to the Emperor Trajan which detailed many things about the Christians, including how they celebrated the Eucharist.

• Tacitus

• Suetonius

• Pliny the Younger

• Josephus

He was a Roman biographer who wrote about the expulsion of the Jews from Rome in CE 38.

• Tacitus

• Suetonius

• Pliny the Younger

• Josephus