The funny things people write in exams and essays

The following are all genuine material from exams and essays which I have marked over the last few years.

• Paul tells the Genitals in Galatians that if they adopt circumcision they should just go the whole way and castrate themselves.
• Walter Buggerman [should be ‘Walter Brueggemann’]
• Rudolph Buttman [should be ‘Rudolph Bultmann’]
• The Psalms are a section of the Old Testament which are often called “scared songs”
• The Abyssinian Empire attacked northern Israel in the 8th Century BCE
• Acts 15 describes how Paul and Peter debated at the Apoplectic council of Jerusalem.
• The doctrine of the vaginal conception explains how God came into the world and became man.
• As Paul says in collations 1:18…
• The influence of Jewish Christina can be detected here.
• Marconi was an early church theologian.
• At the Passover meal, John has Jesus wash the disciples’ food.
• In his article “On Dispensing with Q”, Austin Farrar agues that scholars should dispense with Q.
• Philippi was originally in Greenland, however it became Romanised after the land was won during battle.
• When discussing the Old Testament, perhaps it is best to first define what constitutes the Old Testament. It is the first five books of the Bible.
• The gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke are called the synaptic gospels because they all think in the same way.
• Irene, writing in 200AD…
• Mark is very keen to show that the old convenient was now over
• Jesus told cryptic parables in order to separate the wheat from the chaff. [cf. Mt. 3.12]
• The parable of the sower crops up in all three synoptic gospels.
• The psalms are a collection of songs which can be classified according to the work of Hermann Garfunkel
• John’s gospel has seven masonic signs.
• Indeed, almost all know of perhaps the most famous ‘false’ Jewish prophet: Jesus Christ.
• The Psalms were composed after the Babylion Exile.