 | Students without knowledge of Greek:
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| Students with Greek: Translate text and variants of Acts 19:9. |
Students without Greek:
 | Exercise: Write the following in Greek letters: |
pater hēmōn ho en tois ouranois,
hagiasthētō to onoma sou,
elthetō hē basileia sou,(When finished compare with Matth 6:9ff)
| Look up in a Greek-English dictionary: patēr; ouranos; onoma; basileia |
| Look up in an analytical dictionary and write down the lexical form
of: esklērynonto (if you cannot access the dictionary, try at least to identify the information on these copies: Acts19 dictionary.pdf) |
Greek students:
| Translate (parse; look up unknown words) Lk 24:52-53. Translate the variants as well. |
Everyone
| Read information on manuscripts א, A, B, C: Aland, Text of the NT; Metzger, Text of the NT ; or read the first chapter of David Trobisch, Paul's Letter Collection (reprint 2001), available as Acrobat Reader file "Manuscripts" or online at Trobisch, Paul's Letter Collection (reprint 2001) [If the link does not work, try http://www.religion-online.org go to New Testament, search for "Trobisch"] |
| Describe the Greek variants of Acts 19:9 in full English sentences. Do this exercise in writing. Email me your solution if you want to, I may show it in class. |
Example (first variant):
Instead of hōs de tines manuscript D reads tines men oun autōn.
Pick a verse of the Gospel of Luke that shows variants and describe the variants in full English sentences. Bring it to class next time. This will be part of your portfolio for this class.
Pick a verse of the Letters of Paul and transcribe the Greek (using the Latin alphabet). This will be part of your portfolio as well.
| Type the following text and structure it. How did you proceed? Write down your strategy. |
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More examples:
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| Write your book review and post it on the web. |
| If you have time (and energy) left: Read 1Corinthians and try to structure in 5-7 parts. |
- Where in the text are obvious breaks?
- How do these structuring signals work? (Describe the form and the function. There are three main functions of structural elements: they indicate beginning, connection, end of a block.)
- Try to find more structural elements like that. (Authors and editors have the tendency to repeat the same kind of structuring signals throughout a specific writing.)
|  Questions
about last class have been posted. |
| Nehemiah text of NRSV posted. |
| Guidelines for Structural Analysis are posted. |
| What do both texts have in common? |
| What is different? |
| Use different colors, for example: Yellow highlighter for common wording, red for Matthew, blue for Mark. |
| Examples for a good structural analysis of Nehemiah. Example 1: Good format, good explanation of criteria. Example 2: different approach with different criteria, just as valid. |
| Two examples on how to put the information from the apparatus into English sentences. |
| Structure the text of the following English example. |
| Reconstruct the original form and write it down. |
| Think about the process. How did you proceed? Write down the steps so someone else could do the same exercise and arrive at the same result. |
Several letters were copied one after each other. The first and the last sentence of each letter is missing. Mark those places where you suspect that one letter comes to an end and the next one begins. Note your arguments.
From Axxxx. God permitting, expect us to pay you a visit on the 23rd. As soon therefore as you receive my letter be sure to have the bathroom heated, getting logs carried in and collecting chaff from everywhere, in order that we may bathe in warmth in this wintry weather. For we have chosen to stay at your place, as we intend both to inspect the remaining farms and to arrange the work of your district. See, however, that we are provided with every attention, and above all with a good pig for our party, but, again, let it be a good one, and not lean and unfit to eat like the last. Send word also to the fishermen to bring us some fish. I have sent you a letter for Horion telling him to send you 500 bundles of grass, and you will give him back the same amount; for my working animals are eating green fodder; and at all events have abundance of green grass brought in, in order that they too may have sufficient food. So send for the grass today without fail. Deliver any corn-dues that you can to the decemprimus through your corn-measurer and take the receipt immediately, understanding that if you are guilty of any negligence and do not get the receipts, your old offences also will come in for punishment. Take heed to supply to the hunters whom I have sent to hunt wild boars everything necessary for their many requirements, that is, everything that they and their animals are accustomed to receive, so that they may hunt with all zeal. Give them also a mettlesome donkey from those in your charge, since I have retained for my own use the mule which they had. You were ordered once before to report the quantities of corn stored up and dispatched, but you neglected the order, having perhaps a bad conscience. Do it this time, however, lest you be compelled to do it in the presence of a soldier. As I have received an order from an intimate friend, make it your care to buy two female asses, tall and without blemish, for the price which they are worth, so that neither does the vendor lose nor do we suffer any serious loss, the price being payable to you immediately after I have inspected them. I pray for your health most honored Sir.
| Honor system: You are not allowed to use any books or notes. And you should not spend more than 15 minutes on filling out the form. Keep your answers brief and to the point. By submitting the quiz online and typing your initials you acknowledge these rules. |
Last minute:
| Tim and
Eileen started a discussion on the bulletin board
about Bart Ehrman. What's your opinion (post to the bulletin board)? |
| Come Early Next Week (Portland Campus): "A Story! A Story!" Wednesday, 4/5, 2:00-2:30PM, Portland Campus. Five students doing an independent study on Biblical Story Telling will prepare a chapel service in the tradition of story telling. Every story needs an audience. Please join us. "Let it come! Let it go!" |
| The
assignment for this week (synoptic comparison for the portfolio). I
know I shouldn't do this to the procrastinators, but: this will go into your
portfolio eventually and all I want to do is be of help to you and catch
some severe misunderstandings and (hopefully) tell you that you are on the
right path. So there really is no
DUE date this week. I prefer email; but if you hand it in in class, I
will not be able to look at it until after Easter, because I am gone next
week traveling the Mediterranean (sorry, someone has to do it!) |
| Please
print out Hebrew Table of
characters and bring to class. |
| Example of
excellent redaction criticism in the Synoptics (PDF
file). |
| Alternative: pick a story that is told both in Chronicles and one other place (1.2Samuel, 1.2Kings). Compare them. |
| Alternative: any story told more than once in the Old or New Testament. |
| How to access the ATLAReligion database (password protected PDF file: password is "background") |
| Web link: http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org |
| Identify five articles and five books that seem of interest and concern the synoptic text you analyzed. |
| Order either a book or an article by inter library loan using the FirstSearch and the BTS libraries. |
| Type the bibliographical information of these articles and books following your system or following Turabian. Bring your typed page to class next time. Don't email it to me. This will be part of your portfolio. |
| And have a nice day... |
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| Establish the text -- how much is missing? what does it look like? which language? what about carbon dating the papyrus and ink? |
| Structure -- is it possible to identify structural markers left by the author or first editor? How did the author want the text structured? |
| Source criticism -- is the text using the canonical gospels? is it using Q? is it using Thomas or any other written source? Is Gospel of Judas really the source used by Irenaeus or could it be a different gospel with the same name (please identify the quote in Irenaeus and bring it to class)? |
| Redaction criticism -- if it uses a source, how did it edit this source? If it does not use a known source, are there any redactional elements in the text? What can we learn about the intention of the first editors of the Gospel of Judas? |
| Form criticism -- what genre is this gospel? How does it compare to one or more of the canonical gospels as far as the genre is concerned? What are close parallels (Eileen mentioned gospels from the Nag Hammadi collection). What is the situation of communication? For a web resource see: http://wesley.nnu.edu/biblical_studies/noncanon/ |
