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Question 1: What kinds of stories did Jesus tell? What affect do they have on his followers? What can we learn about the art of storytelling from Jesus?
Question 2: What is a major theme of Jesus' teaching? How is this theme communicated in the stories Jesus tells? How is this theme uniquely communicated in each Gospel? How is this theme communicated in stories about Jesus in each Gospel?
Question 3: Examples of themes: the kingdom of God, the greatest commandment (love), suffering, apocalypse and the end of evil, miracles, the heroic names of Jesus, etc.
Question 4: How are we to understand and interpret ancient writings (the gospels) about Jesus? Should we take these writings at face value?
Question 5: Why or why not? Do these writings contain truths that transcend history and science? If so, how do we study these writings as literature?
Question 6: How can we compare our quest for the truth about Jesus with Big Fish? In this quest, who is Ed Bloom? Who is Will Bloom? How does Big Fish inform us about the truth of somebody's life, of Jesus' life? How does the storytelling in Big Fish compare to the storytelling in the Gospels? Which version of the story do you prefer: Will's or Ed's? The authors of the Gospels or a historians?