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Rel 202: Assignment Week 5

Read
Acts and “Reading Acts (Paul)” in the folder “Comments on Selected NT Texts” in
Course Documents on Blackboard.

1.What
features of Acts indicate that it is Luke’s second volume?

2.What
makes the followers of Jesus in Jerusalem look like a new Israel?

3.Why
does Paul’s passion look like Jesus’?

4.Why
do Peter and Paul look alike?

5.What
makes it clear that the resurrection is central to Acts literarily and
theologically?

6.Explain
how Luke 4:16-30 anticipates the story of Acts.

7.How
is the “church” at the end of Acts different from the one at the beginning?

8.Why
isn’t Acts’ Paul an apostle?

9.Explain
“Una sancta apostolic” and the “fall from the golden age”?

10.What
connects later Christians with Jesus in Acts?

11.How
does Paul’s account of his conversion differ from those in Acts?

12.How
does the portrait of Paul in Acts differ from that in Paul’s letters?

Rel 202: Assignment Week 6

Read
Philemon, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, Philippians, Galatians, 1
Corinthians, and “Reading Paul 1” in the folder “Comments on Selected NT
Texts,” in Course Documents on Blackboard.

1.What
are the genuine Pauline letters? The disputed?

2.Describe
the format of Paul’s typical letter. How does 1 Thessalonians vary this format?
Galatians?

3.What
is the typical function of a Pauline letter?

4.What
does it mean to say that Paul’s letters are “open-ended” stories?

5.What
is rhetoric? What kinds of rhetorical appeals are there? Which does Paul use
(most often)? What warrants does he appeal to for his arguments?

6.Describe
the “puns” in Philemon.

7.What
is the point of Philemon? What does Paul want Philemon to do?

8.What
is Paul’s attitude to slavery?

9.Why
did Paul write 1 Thessalonians?

10.How
does 1 Thessalonians show Paul’s apocalyptic worldview?

11.Why
do scholars question Paul’s authorship of 2 Thessalonians?

12.Who
is the lawless one? The one who restrains?

13.Why
did Paul write Philippians?

14.What
is the theme/motif of Philippians?

15.How
is Philippians like Galatians, 2 Corinthians, and Romans?

16.Why
did Paul write Galatians?

17.What
is the other gospel?

18.What
is Paul’s gospel? Pay particular attention to Galatians 2:15-21.

19.What
does Paul mean by justification, faith, grace, law, and in Christ?

20.Explain
Paul’s reading of scripture (the OT). Who is Abraham’s seed? What is the
function of the law? What is peculiar, from a Jewish perspective, about
Galatians 4:21-31? Who are God’s sons?

21.Compare
1 Corinthians 1-4 to pyramids of power and patrons.

22.What
is conservative about 1 Corinthians 7? Apocalyptic? What is the significance of
“as not”?

23.What
are meats offered to idols?

24.Is
Paul egalitarian or patriarchal? Explain both 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 and
14:33-36.

25.Explain
1 Corinthians using the metaphor of the body (3 different meanings).

Rel 202: Assignment Week 7

Read
2 Corinthians, Romans, and “Reading Paul 2” in “Comments on Selected NT Texts”
in Course Documents on Blackboard.

1.Why
do scholars doubt the “integrity” of 2 Corinthians? I.e., why do they doubt it
is one letter? How many letters are there?

2.According
to Paul, where is God’s glory manifest? How does glory differ in Moses and in
Christ?

3.How
are 2 Corinthians 8 and 9 like Philemon?

4.Who
are the super apostles?

5.Why
did Paul write Romans?

6.What
does it mean to be “in Christ”?

7.In
Romans, does Paul have the salvation of the individual or the world in mind?
Cite textual evidence for your position.

8.What
is the “theodicy” problem in Romans? How does Paul resolve this problem?

9.What
is the fate of Israel in Romans 9-11? Why is this important to Paul?

10.What
HB materials is Paul’s outlook on “salvation” and Israel most like?

11.How
does Paul’s “gospel” revise apocalyptic?

12.Use
death/resurrection to explain Paul’s gospel, apostolic career, Christian life,
and history of Israel.