maldridge_Worksheet3

Name _Madison Aldridge BIBL 3213 New Testament Introduction - Online Worksheet chapter 3 Indicate whether the following statements are true or false. 1. There is considerable evidence to indicate that Matthew originally circulated without a title. False 2. There is considerable evidence to indicate that the present titles were attached to the gospels about A.D. 125. False 3. Most modern scholars argue that Matthew was originally written in Hebrew or Aramaic. False 4. According to G. D. Kilpatrick, Matthew is not the work of a single author but is a community product. True 5. Most scholars today opt for Syria as Matthew’s place of origin. True 6. Most scholars today hold that Matthew depended on Mark. True 7. Christians in the East were quite reluctant to accept Matthew into the canon. False Answer the following questions. 8. What are the three dominant theories concerning the structure of Matthew? 1. Some have detected a geographic framework that is related to Mark’s gospel. 2. Following suggestions made by Stonehouse, Lohmeyer, and Krentz, Kingsbury has argued for three large sections tightly tied to a Christological development. 3. The most frequently proposed structures turn on the observation that Matthew presents five discourses, each of which begins in a specific context and ends with a formula found nowhere else. 9. What is Martin Hengel’s theory concerning the naming of the gospels? Argues that as soon as two or more gospels were publicly read in any one church-a phenomenon that certainly occurred, he thinks, not later than A.D. 100-it would have been necessary to distinguish between them by some such device as a title. 10. What objections have been raised against Hengel’s theory? The gospels could circulate anonymously for up to sixty years, and then in the second century suddenly unanimous attribution to certain authors. 11. How do modern scholars interpret the statement of Papias? Modern scholars tend to date Papias to A.D. 140 or later; but if Irenaeus is right and Eusebius is wrong, then there is no reason Papias could not have written or more years earlier, and with excellent access to accurate information. 12. What arguments are generally presented by those who deny the apostolic authorship of Matthew? Those who deny apostolic authorship of this book are inclined to interpret the same evidence as the reason why the unknown author (s) chose to associate the book with Matthew as opposed to some other apostle.