1. What genre of literature is this?
2. How is it structured?
3. What form does the passage take?
4. What key terms are used, and what do they mean?
5. What is the key idea or thesis of the passage?
6. What images, metaphors, or other literary devices does the author use to convey the key idea of the passage?

• "A" work exhibits the following traits:
  • Clear, succinct, and accurate assessment of genre, structure, and form;
  • Concise statement of thesis;
  • Complete list of key terms (with definitions);
  • Accurate and interesting discussion of literary and rhetorical devices used in the passage to convey its key ideas.
• "F" work exhibits the following traits:
  • Inaccurate assessment of genre, structure, and form;
  • Thesis, key terms (with definitions), or assessment lacking all required elements;
  • Little or no discussion of literary and rhetorical devices used in the passage to convey its key ideas.

1. What are the most significant structural or formal commonalities you find?
2. What are the most significant common ideas or illustrations used?
3. Conceptually, where do the texts disagree?
4. What do the similarities and differences among the parallels suggest about their source(s) for this pericope?

• "A" work exhibits the following traits:
  • Clear, succinct, and accurate description of structural and/or formal commonalities;
  • Concise synopsis of common ideas and/or illustrations;
  • Clear listing of points of disagreement between/among the synoptic parallels;
  • Concise assessment of source-critical questions (including the direction of literary dependence, if any).
• "F" work exhibits the following traits:
  • Comparison fails to address two or more of these questions, or answers them inaccurately.

1. What is the most important thing you learned by doing this analysis?
2. What are two or three questions you would like to raise for class discussion of these texts?

• "A" work exhibits the following traits:
  • Clear, succinct, complete, and interesting response to Q1;
  • Two or three substantial questions for class discussion of the study.
• "F" work exhibits the following traits:
  • Vague or no response to Q1;
  • One insubstantial question or no questions for class discussion.

• "A" work exhibits the following traits:
  • Complete information on the author(s), title of assignment, and date of submission appears in top left corner of the first page of the document;
  • Print copies have a header with the surname of the author(s) in the top left corner and sequential page numbers in the top right corner;
  • All citations and bibliographic references are complete and formatted according to The Chicago Manual of Style;
  • The study exhibits clear evidence that the author(s) consulted a minimum of six substantial works-in-print from reputable, contemporary and classical Biblical scholars.
• "F" work exhibits the following traits:
  • Author, title, and date information is incomplete;
  • Print form with incorrect or missing header and/or page enumeration;
  • Citations and bibliographic references are incomplete or do not correctly follow The Chicago Manual of Style;
  • Little or no evidence of outside research.

• "A" work exhibits the following traits:
  • Elegance of style;
  • Clarity of expression;
  • Succinctness in exposition;
  • No mistakes in punctuation, orthography, typography, grammar, or syntax.
• "F" work exhibits the following traits:
  • Cumbersome or colloquial style;
  • Vagueness and/or verbosity;
  • Five or more mistakes in punctuation, orthography, and typography.
  • Chronic errors of grammar and/or syntax.

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