Title of Essay Analyse the relationship between the example of Jesus and Christian conduct in 1 Peter Commentary: This has been my my strongest assignment so far. 88% and I am pleased with how it turned out. I found Katie Marcar’s work as I was about to start my deeper research for the assignment and between her, Edmund Clowney and John Elliott, I think I found a solid voice. I could have...
Title of Essay Discuss the significance of the Jerusalem Council (Acts 15) for the Expansion of the Church in the Book of Acts, provide application for the contemporary audience Commentary: This has been my weakest assignment so far. Very disappointed with my work on this essay. New and challenging job and all that, but not the standard that I want to hold myself to. Mark was 71 out of 100...
Title of Essay The Challenge of Hearing the New Testament with additional focus on Rhetorical Criticism Commentary: Just didn’t get there with this one. Only 75% and really deserved to not get a Distinction. I have started a new and quite challenging job and I just have been behind the 8 ball all semester. Not connecting the way I would like. Introduction In Misreading Scripture with...
Title of Essay “The light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their works were evil.” (John 3:19) Analyse the use of light and darkness imagery in John’s Gospel. Commentary: So this one was a bit challenging and it’s been suggested that I may be allowing perfect be the enemy of good with my longer essays. What that means is that I am digging...
Title of Essay Compare and contrast the portrait of Pilate that emerges in the Gospels with that found in Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, 18.55-64 (18.3.1-3); and, The Jewish Wars, 2.169-177 (2.9.2-4). What implications would you draw about the reliability of the Gospels? Commentary: This was a fun brief analysis of a primary document against the gospels. In this case comparing the writings...
Commentary I got a distinction for this exam answer (84%). I can’t recall the question but it related to the transition from the Judges to the Kings and Yahweh’s role as ultimate king. The significant issue that you will note at the end of the assessment is my horrendous time management – I just messed up how long I have and wrote the last sentence as the clock ran down with...
Commentary I haven’t kept the questions for these exams, so the titles will be just covering the broad subject area. I got a distinction for this exam answer (80%). All in all, I was pretty happy with my work on this one. I’ll repeat my comment on my mark on all of these exam responses. I include my marks because they are an important indicator of the quality of the answer for your...
Commentary I got a high distinction for this exam answer (86%). The exam question asked what the central message of Job is and gave a quote from Hill and Walton (as I recall). All in all, I was pretty happy with my work on this one. I’ll repeat my comment on my mark as I wrote on my Chronicles essay. I include my marks because they are an important indicator of the quality of the answer for...
Commentary I got a high distinction for the exam answer (86%). The question contained a quote from I think Dumbrell regarding the value of the presence of God rather than of Kings. The quote cuts to the heart of the purpose of the Book of Chronicles. (I obviously am aware that there are two books of Chronicles in the Christian Bible, but the original canon combined these into one very large book...
Title of Essay “The nations ‘remain on the sidelines’ (R. N. Whybray, Isaiah 40-66, 32) in the Writing Prophets’ view of the future.” Discuss this assertion in relation to the prophecies of Isaiah, Amos and Zechariah. Commentary: I had a few options to pursue in the “Writing Prophets” and chose the one that I actually thought would be the hardest. The others appeared to me to be...