Christian Religious Assignment

Assignment Details:

Submit a Word Doc. that includes your choice of passage, the method/approach you plan to utilize, along with a concise research question related to the selected passage and the approach.

Make sure to consult the "Guide to a Research Paper for Biblical Studies," step 1.

Details are shown in following pictures (Must include everything):

Passages:

Mark 1:12–13//Matthew 4:1–11//Luke 4:1–13 (Temptation of Jesus)

Mark 7:24–30//Matthew 15:21–28 (The Syrophonecian/Canaanite Woman and Jesus)

Mark 8:22-26//Matthew?//Luke?? (The Two-Stage healing of the blind man)

Mark 8:27-33//Matthew 16:13-23//Luke 9:18-22 (Peter’s Messianic Statement)

Mark 14:43-50//Matthew 26:47-56//Luke 22:47-53//John 18:1-11 (Arrest of Jesus)

Matthew 1:18-25//Luke 2:1-7 (The Birth of Jesus)

Matthew 26:6-13, luke 7:36–50, John 12:1–8 (Wasted Perfume Debacle)

Matthew 27:3-10//Acts 1:15-26 (Death of Judas)

Methods/Approaches

Historical Critical Approaches (the world behind the text)

Historical Criticism

Comparative Religions Approach

Source Criticism

Redaction Criticism

Literary Critical Approaches (the world of the text)

Narrative Criticism

Myth theory

Characterization

Reader Response or Postmodern Approaches (the world in front of the text)

Ideological Criticism

Feminist Criticism

Reception History