I need to write 4 bullet points from each essay in the book title A harmony of the Gospel. The book is in my Gmail account book library. The Gmail account is XXXXXXXXXX and the password is Pass4Swork.

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I need to write 4 bullet points from each essay in the book title A harmony of the Gospel. The book is in my Gmail account book library. The Gmail account is [email protected] and the password is Pass4Swork.
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Swati answered on Jan 06 2021
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Essay 1
Is a harmony of Gospels Legitimate?
· Before 19th and 20th century, the harmony of Gospels to study the life of Jesus was considered as Legitimate but now with the modern criticism, harmonization concept is no longer accepted universally for comparing and rather compiling the biblical records of that life.
· Approaches in opposition
of this are 4 gospels were not history but gospels, doubt about existence of Jesus, loose handling of traditions, redaction criticism, difficult to harmonize parallel accounts, not interested to tamper the scripture text.
· Great reasons for arranging gospels to show parallel and distinctive contribution includes derives grant recognition, highlights the historic basis of Christianity, knowledge enhancement and need to grow to be conducive with harmonies.
· Actual and factual history helped to reveal the biblical revelation. The harmonies of gospels are not only legitimate but also quite must for revelation of biblical knowledge which further reflects the connection between the history and truth on basis of several grounds.
Essay 2
A history of Harmonies
· Harmonies are not recent innovations but even after many limitations and difficulties, the 4 accounts were pulled together to check harmony which included life, death and resurrection of Jesus.
· Ammonius of Alexandrian devised system in 3rd century to compare passages of Matthew with Mark, Luke and John whereby he gave full text of Matthew and copied comparable passages of other Gospels.
· Parallel column format is more appropriate for comparing the harmonies because it gives course of development in life and ministry of Christ in case of skilled arrangement and outlining.
· Another method was horizontal lines synopsis which had few limitations but could compare the similarities and differences among the gospel accounts.
Essay 3
Source Criticism
· Synoptic problem were the problems caused due to differences and similarities in the synoptic that were the common view of Jesus by Mathew, Luke and Mike.
· Source criticism was field of study to solve the Synoptic problems where the basic approach to problem would be considering the number of sources both oral and written.
· Streeter supported the two source theory with the help of 5 grounds and was widely accepted on that basis but it clashes directly with the strong testimony of Christendom to effect that Matthew first of all wrote.
· Two source theory was somehow inadequate and as there was no other scheme to meet the satisfaction thus synoptic writers depended on each other’s writings.
Essay 4
Form Criticism
· Source criticism attempted to solve the problems of Synoptics by analyzing Gospels in terms of positing source documents whereas the form criticism was new variety of Gospel criticism which to some extent accepted the source criticism theory.
· Assumption to arrange material into artificial context had 2 elements that are holding on earlier Christian community and evangelists were merely editors to the content.
· Intention of Form criticism was to investigate the units of Gospel tradition in 20 year oral period before editing them in first sources and thus shown greater skepticism expression.
· Factors considered are evidence of eyewitnesses, biographical interest of community, impossibility f creative community, evidence for reliable historical contexts and real significance of stereotyped forms.
Essay 5
Redaction Criticism
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