NT008-812 - The Synoptic Gospels (English)

  • 2,976 Standard Tuition Fee
  • 12
    Credit Points
  • 0.125 EFT 
  • 8
    AQF level
  • Category developing unit
    B
  • new testamentUnit Discipline

Corequisites

NT001-512, NT001-712 or NT003-512, NT003-712

Exclusions

Prior to 2020, this unit content was delivered under the unit code NT620. NT009-612, NT009-712, NT009-812

Set Text

This unit counts towards the "set text" unit requirements of courses.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will

A. Know and understand

1. Demonstrate Advanced knowledge and understanding of the contents, themes and character of the Synoptic Gospels in the English text

B. Be able to

1.Examine the ‘introductory’ issues in understanding the Synoptic Gospels

2. Evaluate alternative interpretations of the themes and theological teachings of the Synoptic Gospels

3. Exegete selected passages of the English text of the Synoptic Gospels 

C. Be in a position to

1. Applying the teaching of the Synoptic Gospels to contemporary Christian living and ministry practice

Content

Candidates are required to learn to employ exegetical methods of modern critical scholarship. Candidates may not take any unit in which they repeat material completed in another unit.

1. The theology and critical issues in modern study of the Gospel chosen.

2. Exegesis of the English text of Luke 14–24 (or a comparable block of chapters from a Synoptic Gospel).

Set Readings

This unit's indicative bibliography is currently being revised. Students should contact their home college for further details at the time of taking this unit.

 

General Works:

Black, D. A. and D. R. Beck (eds), Rethinking the Synoptic Problem (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic 2001).

Bockmuehl, M. and D. A. Hagner (eds), The Written Gospel. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Blomberg, C. L., Jesus and the Gospels (Leicester: Apollos, 2002 repr).

Burridge, R. A., Four Gospels One Jesus (2nd & updated ed.; London: SPCK, 2005).

Burridge, R. A., What Are the Gospels?: A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography (2nd ed.; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004).

Goodacre, M., The Synoptic Problem: A Way Through the Maze (Sheffield: SAP, 2001).

Goodacre, M., The Case Against Q (Harrisburg, PA: TPI, 2002).

McKnight, S. and G Osborne (eds.), The Face of New Testament Studies: A Survey of Recent Research (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, and Leicester: Apollos, 2004).

 

Classic:

Sanders, E. and M. Davies, Studying the Synoptic Gospels (London: SCM, 1989).

 

Studies on Luke:

Bartholomew, G. C., J. B. Green, and A.C. Thiselton, (eds), Reading Luke: Interpretation, Reflection, Formation, Scripture and Hermeneutic 6 (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2005).

Bovon, F., Luke the Theologian: Fifty-five Years of Research (1950-2005) (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2006).

Byrne, B., The Hospitality of God: A Reading of Luke’s Gospel (Strathfield: Liturgical Press, 2000).

Forbes, G. W., The God of Old: The Role of the Lukan Parables in the Purpose of Luke’s Gospel (Sheffield: SAP, 2000).

Hur, J., A Dynamic Reading of the Holy Spirit in Luke-Acts JSNTS 211 (London: Continuum, 2004).

Marshall, I. H., Luke: Historian & Theologian (repr & updated; Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 1998).

 

Classics:

Bailey, K. E., Poet and Peasant and Through Peasant Eyes: A Literary-Cultural Approach to the Parables in Luke (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1983).

Turner, M., Power from on High: The Spirit in Israel's Restoration and Witness in Luke-Acts (Sheffield: SAP, 1996).

 

Commentaries:

Bock, D. L., Luke (2 Vols; Grand Rapids: Baker, 1994,1996).

Bovon, F., Luke 1: A Commentary on the Gospel of Luke 1:1-9:50 (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002).

Green, J. B., The Gospel of Luke (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997).

Fitzmyer, J. A., The Gospel According to Luke (2 Vols; New York: Doubleday, 1979, 1985).

Johnson, L. T., The Gospel of Luke (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical, 1991).

Talbert, C. H., Reading Luke: A Literary and Theological Commentary on the Third Gospel (New York: Crossroad, 1988).

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