Text Focus	Critical Method	Researchers
Mark 5:1-20 Legion & Demon Possession	Social-scientific Criticism	Jewel Gentry
Mark 8:31-38 Cost of Discipleship	Narrative Criticism	Derwin Borling
Mark 9:14-29 Healing of a Boy with a Spirit	Social-Scientific Criticism	Jorge Ruvalcaba
Matthew 5:1-17 Beatitudes, Salt & light	Narrative Criticism	Melvin Bautista
Matthew 18:10-14 Parable of the Lost Sheep	Narrative Criticism	Sylvia Fath
Matthew 19:3-12 The Teaching on Divorce & Celibacy	Redaction Criticism	Gabriel Rodriguez
Luke 4:14-30 Inaugural Preaching in Nazareth Synagogue	Narrative Criticism	Teresa Perez Martinez
Luke 7:36-50 The pardon of the sinful woman	Narrative Criticism	Elena Lang
Luke 7:36-50 The sinful woman at the Pharisee's dinner	Narrative Criticism (hospitality)	Michael Bokulich
Luke 10:25-28 The Greatest Com-mandment & the Shema	Narrative Criticism	Bob Bourgault
Luke 10:25-37 The Greatest Commandment & the Good Samaritan	Narrative Criticism	William Reeves
Luke 10:25-37 The Greatest Commandment & the Good Samaritan	Social-Scientific Criticism	Crystal Catalan
Luke 10:38-42 Martha and Mary	Narrative (and Feminist?) Criticism	Delila Vasquez
Luke 10:13-17 Bent over woman	Feminist Criticism	Erika Franey
John 1:1-18 Prologue	Narrative Criticism	Christian Emmons
John 4:4-26 Samaritan woman at the well	Narrative (+ Feminist) Criticism	Robert Eckstein
John 4:4-42 Samaritan woman at the well	Feminist Criticism	Cristina Hernández
John 20:11-18 Jesus appears to Mary Magalene	Feminist Criticism	Frida Ramírez
Acts 2:42-47; 4:32-57 Wealth in the Jeru-salem Community	Narrative Criticism	Bill Barron

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