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| A literary narrative in which persons, places, and events are given a symbolic meaning. |
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| Joseph Caiaphas, High Priest of Jerusalem during the reign of the emperor Tiberius. Son-in-law to his immediate predecessor, Annas, he was appointed to the office by the prefect Valerius Gratus and presided over Jesus' hearing. |
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| From the greek eschatos, meaning "last", a term designating the end of history or human life. |
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| The christian ceremony of consecrated bread and wine that Jesus initiated at the Last Supper; from the greek word meaning gratitude or "thanksgiving". |
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| The casting out of demons who have possessed human beings. They are important to Jesus' ministry and are given alot of space in Mark. |
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| The Jewish leaders' highest judicial council, Who jesus has his trial in front of and where Jesus reveal who he is for the first time. |
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| Mark's favored expression to denote Jesus' three essential roles: an earthly figure who teaches with authority, a servant who embraces suffering and a future eschatological judge. |
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| an epiphany (manifestation of divine presence) in which the disciples see Jesus tranform into a luminours being seated beside Moses and Elijah. |
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| a desert ascetic who was conducting a religious campaign at the Jordan river in which he allowed people to repent and get baptized. |
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| the apostle, of whom Mark was had been a disciple of. He based his account off of Peter's reminiscings of Jesus. |
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| The assiotiation of wars and national revolts with persecution of believers gives an eschatological urgency to Mark's account. e.i. Jesus' return in heavenly glory. |
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| One of the twelve disciples. He's the one who betrays Jesus. (Kiss on Cheek) |
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| The rule or dominion of God in human affairs; the translation of the Greek |
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| A wealthy member of the Snhedrin and, according to John, a secret follower of Jesus who claimed Jesus' crucified body from Pilate for burial in his private garden tomb. |
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| The region of northern Palestine lying west of the Jordan river, Where Jesus grew up and carried out much of his public ministry. |
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| The site of a garden or orchard on the Mount of Olives where Jesus took his disciples after the last supper; the place where he was arrested. |
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| Where Jesus was crucified, outside of Jerusalem. also called Place of Skull. |
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| the Romn prefect (governor) who was in Jerusalem to maintain order during passover week. He was scared of Jesus and his ministry so he was the one who had him arrested and executed. |
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| Jesus' final meal with his disciples, depicted as a passover observance in the synoptic Gospels, it was the occasion at which Jesus instituted a "New Covenant" with his followers and inaugarated the ceremony of wine and bread. |
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| The phrase that the German scholar William Wrede used to describe a major theme in Mark's Gospel- Jesus' "hidden messiahship," This icludes how he often tells the people he heals no to tell anyone. |
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| A short fictional narrative that compares something familiar to an unexpected spiritual Value. |
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| The term commonly used to denote Jesus' suffering and death. |
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| A comparison using "like" or "as", usually to illustrate an unexpected resemblance between a familiar object and a novel idea. (Jesus' Parables) |
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| Another title that mark gives to Jesus in his gospel. Basically talks about who Jesus is. |
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| a fiercely nationalistic Jewish party dedicated to freeing Judea from foriegn Domination that coalesced about 67-68 CE |
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| A dualistic religion established by the east Iranian prophet Zoroaster about the late sixth century BCE. Zoroaster saw the universe as a duality of spirit and matter, light and darkness, good and evil. |
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| The section of Metthews sermon on the Mount in which Jesus contrasts selected provisions of the Mosaic Torah with his own ethical directives. |
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| A person sent forth or comissioned as an envoy or messenger, like the twelve who jesus selected to follow him. |
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| The list of blessings or sources of happiness with which Jesus begins the sermon on the mount |
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| The New Testament name for th "Vally of the son [or children] of Hinnom," a topographical depression that bordered Jerusalem on the south and west and hat had been the site of sacrifices to Canaanite Gods. |
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| A solution to the synoptic problem that views Mark as a conflation and abridgement of Matthew and Luke, a theory a small majority of scholars supports |
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| The interpretation of the legal sections of the mosac torah. The term derives from a Hebrew word meaning "to follow". Deals with rules that guide a persons life. |
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| Lex talionis (Law of retaliation) |
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| The law of strict retaliation, the principle of retributive justice expressed in the Torah command to exact and "eye for an eye". Jesus rejects this. |
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| M (Matthews special source) |
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| An abbreviation for special Matthean material, the scholarly term for passages only found in Luke. |
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| A Greek term, meaning "presence" or "coming", that the New Testiment wrtiers use to denot Jesus' reapperance on earth, when, as Israel's divinely powered Messiah, he will judge all humanity and establish God's universal rule. |
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| an abbreviation for Quelle, the German word for source, a hypothetical document that many scholars believed contained a collection of Jesus' sayings |
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| Scribes were professional copyist who recorded commercial, royal, and religious texts (worked as clerks/secretaries) Pharisees were a leading religious movement in Judaism, Their thoughts on resurrection/ afterlife anticipated Christian teachings. |
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| According to the Hebrew Bible, the subterranean region to which the "shades" of all the dead descended. A place of intense gloom and hopelesness. Later on seen as the place where the dead go to await resurrection. |
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| The analysis of a document to discover it's written sources |
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| A term reffering to scholars' attempts to discover the literary relationship among the three similar gospels of Mark, Matthew and Luke |
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| Matthew and Luke both used Mark and Q as sources. Some scholars have postulated that Q is actually a plurality of sources, some written and some oral. Others have attempted to determine the stages in which Q was composed |
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| where Matthew demonstrates how radically different Jesus' concept of this messiahship is from the popular expectation of a conquering warrior-king. This long discourse on Galilean hill shows Jesus' most extensive teachings. |
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| wise men from the east who come to pay homage to the infant Jesus. There were three, most likely babylonian or persian astrologers. |
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| The risen Jesus issues the Great Comission to his disciples in order to "make all nations my disciples" He wanted them to spread his teachings all over the world. |
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| When Matthew adds the missionary work of the church to the gospel. |
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| ZThe long poem uttered by Zechariah, in it's latin name. Combines scrptural quotations with typically Lukan views about Jesus' significance |
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