Title: Chapter 06: Fill-in-the-blank/Short Answer Questions: The Genre and Literary Tradition of the Gospels
Course: Engaging the Christian Scriptures Instructor's Manual

Q: What does the term “gospel” mean?
- good news (good news)

Q: Most modern scholars recognize that the Gospels belong to the genre of ___________.
- ancient biography (ancient biography)

Q: Which Gospels are known as the “Synoptic Gospels”?
- Matthew, Mark, and Luke (Matthew, Mark, and Luke)

Q: What are two areas of Gospel study for which the source-critical discussions provide a basis?
- the particular theological emphases of the Gospels [redaction criticism] and the reconstruction of early Christianity’s history (the particular theological emphases of the Gospels [redaction criticism] and the reconstruction of early Christianity’s history)

Q: What is “Q”?
- a hypothetical source reconstructed from the approximately 220–30 verses shared by Matthew and Luke but not Mark; Q is a key part of the Two-Source Hypothesis (a hypothetical source reconstructed from the approximately 220–30 verses shared by Matthew and Luke but not Mark; Q is a key part of the Two-Source Hypothesis)