Author : Cilliers Breytenbach
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 14,2 MB
Release : 2020-11-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004443754
Across 22 studies the author analyses the Gospel according to Mark as a performed episodic narrative, including its early reception, text type, dependence on Jesus tradition, Galilean setting, style, use of metaphor, intertextuality, strategies of persuasion, and theology.
Author : David M. Rhoads
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 16,60 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780800631604
Mark as Story introduces the Gospel of Mark as a unified composition, laying bare the narrative thread as well as the basic motifs.--From publisher's description.
Author : Camille Focant
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 2012-07-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1725246937
The world to which the Gospel of Mark introduces its reader is a world of conflicts and suspense, enigmas and secrets, questions and overturning of evidence, irony and surprise. Its principal actor, Jesus, is perplexing in the extreme. He is evidently so for the religious authorities who oppose him, but also for his disciples, who shift from incomprehension to opposition and flight. Questions of meaning, life and death, good and evil are continually broached. This narrative is a subtle invitation to enter into a new world, that of the coming Reign of God, in which the first are last and whoever wants to save his life must lose it. This commentary on the Gospel of Mark has been enthusiastically reviewed in the French edition as one of the best current commentaries on Mark. As a narrative critical commentary, it favors an interpretation of the Gospel that tries to grasp the dynamic of the text taken as a whole. Even if the technical vocabulary of narrative analysis is not used, and the main results of the historical-critical criticism, particularly those of redaction criticism, are not neglected, as the notes will reveal, it is narrative criticism that guides the proceedings.
Author : Ernest Best
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 25,78 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Author : C. Clifton Black
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 36,16 MB
Release : 2023-05-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 146746094X
A culmination of contemporary scholarship on the Gospel of Mark. A preeminent scholar of the Gospel of Mark, C. Clifton Black has been studying and publishing on the Gospel for over thirty years. This new collection brings together his most pivotal work and fresh investigations to constitute an all-in-one compendium of contemporary Markan scholarship and exegesis. The essays included cover scriptural commentary, historical studies, literary analysis, theological argument, and pastoral considerations. Among other topics Black explores: • the Gospel’s provenance, authorship, and attribution • the significance of redaction criticism in Markan studies • recent approaches to the Gospel’s interpretation • literary and rhetorical analyses of the Gospel’s narrative • the kingdom of God and its revelation in Jesus • Mark’s theology of creation, suffering, and discipleship • the Gospel of Mark’s relationship to the Gospel of John and Paul’s letters • the passion in Mark as the Gospel’s recapitulation Scholars, advanced students, and clergy alike will consider this book an indispensable resource for understanding the foundational Gospel.
Author : Francis J. SDB Moloney
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 49,68 MB
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441238832
The Gospel of Mark, addressed to an early Christian community perplexed by failure and suffering, presents Jesus as suffering Messiah and Son of God. Recognizing that failure and suffering continue to perplex Christians today, world-renowned New Testament scholar and theologian Francis Moloney marries the rich contributions of traditional historical scholarship with the contemporary approach to the Gospels as narrative. Now in paperback, this commentary combines the highest-level scholarship with pastoral sensitivity. It offers an accessible and thoughtful reading of Mark's narrative to bring the Gospel's story to life for contemporary readers.
Author : Lena Nogossek-Raithel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 15,21 MB
Release : 2023-10-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3111184838
The gospel of Mark purposefully employs characters with specific and nuanced representations of dis/ability to portray the unique authority, the engaging message, and the mission of the Markan Jesus. Based on hermeneutical insights from Dis/ability Studies, this monograph is a contribution to the research of culturally and historically normalized corporeality in the biblical scriptures. At the core of the investigation are the healing narratives: passages that explicitly deal with a transformation from a described deviant bodily state to a positively valued corporeality. Lena Nogossek-Raithel not only analyzes the terminological and historical descriptions of these physical phenomena but also investigates their narrative function for the gospel text. The author argues that the images of dis/ability employed are far from accidental. Rather, they significantly influence the narrative’s structure and impact, embody its theological claims, and characterize its protagonist Jesus. With this thorough exegetical analysis, Nogossek-Raithel offers a firm historical foundation for anyone interested in the critical interpretation and theological application of the Markan healing narratives.
Author : William L. Lane
Publisher : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 35,79 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Religion
ISBN :
The Gospel of Mark is significant in many ways. Not only was it the first Gospel to be written and an important literary source for Matthew and Luke, but it is also best characterized as a witness document, a proclamation of salvation through Jesus Christ, which received its creative impulse from the early apostolic preaching. This widely praised commentary by William Lane shows Mark to be a theologian whose primary aim was to strengthen the people of God in a time of fiery persecution by Nero. Using redaction criticism as a hermeneutical approach for understanding the text and the intention of the evangelist, Lane considers the gospel of Mark as a total literary work and describes Mark's creative role in shaping the Gospel tradition and in exercising a conscious theological purpose. By indicating how the text was heard by Mark's contemporaries while also studying Mark within the frame of reference of modern Gospel research, Lane has constructed a thoroughgoing work that is at once useful to scholars and intelligible to nonspecialists. -- From publisher's description.
Author : Tucker S. Ferda
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 39,98 MB
Release : 2024-09-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1467463612
In this pioneering study of Scripture and reception history, Tucker S. Ferda shows that the hope for Jesus’s second coming originated in his own message about the coming of the kingdom after a time of distress. Most historical Jesus scholars take for granted that Jesus’s second coming was invented by his zealous early followers. In Jesus and His Promised Second Coming, Tucker S. Ferda challenges this critical consensus. Using innovative methodology, Ferda works backward through reception history to Paul and the Gospels to argue that the hope for the second coming originated in Jesus’s own grappling with the prospect of death and his conviction that the kingdom was near; he expected a return that would coincide with the final judgment and the end of the age within the space of a generation. Ferda also makes a major contribution to the reception history of the Bible, shedding light on how Christians distinguished their faith from Judaism by deriding “Jewish messianism” as earthly minded and militaristic. In the early modern period, critics found an expedient way to distance Jesus from this caricature of “Jewish messianism”: they pinned the expectation for the second coming on Jesus’s early followers. A new appreciation for the diversity of Judaism and messianism in the Second Temple period makes possible a fresh reconstruction of Jesus. Bold and historically astute, Jesus and His Promised Second Coming breathes new life into a long-stagnant conversation. It also offers readers fresh insight into the history of Jewish-Christian relations. Students and scholars of the New Testament will need to read and engage with Ferda’s provocative argument.
Author : Lindy Tichi
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,38 MB
Release : 2021-07-12
Category :
ISBN :
Gospel originally meant the Christian message, but in the 2nd century, it came to be used also for the books in which the message was set out; in this sense a gospel can be defined as a loose-knit, episodic narrative of the words and deeds of Jesus of Nazareth, culminating in his trial and death and concluding with various reports of his post-resurrection appearances. The four canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John share the same basic outline: Jesus begins his public ministry in conjunction with that of John the Baptist, calls disciples, teaches and heals and confronts the Pharisees, dies on the cross, and is raised from the dead.[4] Each has its own distinctive understanding of Jesus and his divine role: Mark never calls him "God", Luke expands on Mark while eliminating some passages, but still follows his plot more faithfully than does Matthew, and John, the most overtly theological, is the first to make Christological judgments outside the context of the narrative of Jesus's life.[5] They contain irreconcilable details, and attempts to harmonize them would be disruptive to their distinct theological messages. This book is a collection of reflections on God's four Gospels. The reflections provide context, history, and suggestions to help us apply God's Word to our evolving lives. The words in this book are not aimed at or exclude any religion or denomination, the reflections are offered only with the hope that they may help you.
