1. Given the observations and arguments of modern biblical scholars, how tenable is the assumption that the New Testament mostly reports history?

2. How is that assumption challenged by the scholars examined in Chapter One of the course text?

3. Which specific contents (e.g. words, deeds, happenings) in the New Testament, especially in the Gospels, have you personally assumed were historical?

4. Why might you now begin to question such assumptions, and how might such questioning affect how you view the Christian faith?