The first biography of Jesus: genre and meaning in Mark's gospel
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Present Volume -- Time, Place, and Author -- Overview -- 1. Mark as a Bios -- From the Ancients to Votaw -- The Eclipse of Biography -- A Jewish Background? -- The Return of Greco-Ro...
| Summary: | Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Present Volume -- Time, Place, and Author -- Overview -- 1. Mark as a Bios -- From the Ancients to Votaw -- The Eclipse of Biography -- A Jewish Background? -- The Return of Greco-Roman Biography -- The Last Twenty-Five Years -- 2. Ancient Bioi -- The Emergence of Biography -- Biography and Morality -- Character -- Depictions of Death -- Biographical Fact and Fiction -- The Preserve of the Elite? -- Subgroups and Subtypes? -- 3. Mark the Biographer -- Profile of a Biographer -- Mark's Christ-following Readers -- Mark's Structure -- Pre-Markan Tradition -- Authorial Voice -- 4. A Life of Jesus -- Mark's Opening Section (1:1-15) -- Jesus in Galilee (1:16-8:21) -- Teaching on Discipleship (8:22-10:52) -- Jerusalem (11:1-13:44) -- Imitation of Jesus -- Jesus's Appearance -- 5. Other Characters -- Peripheral Characters -- Markan Intercalations-A Form of Synkrisis? -- "King Herod" -- The High Priest/Pilate -- The Twelve -- "Minor Characters" -- Summary -- 6. The Death of Jesus -- A Slave's Death -- Setting Up an Ending -- Significance -- Imitation -- "King of the Jews" -- Events around Jesus's Death -- The Disappearance of the Body -- Conclusion -- Final Reflections -- The Earliest Life of Jesus -- Automimēsis -- Bibliography -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Sources. |
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| ISBN: | 1467458074 |