Hearing Mark's Endings: Listening to Ancient Popular Texts through Speech Act Theory. By Bridget Gilfillan Upton
The ending of Mark's Gospel has been the focus of a great deal of discussion in the course of the last hundred years, but it has always been seen as a literary problem. Mark's own work stops abruptly at 16:8, but did he intend to end there? Do the alternative endings represent attempts to...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2007
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 58, Issue: 2, Pages: 640-642 |
| Review of: | Hearing Mark's endings (Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2006) (Hooker, Morna Dorothy)
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Book review
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| Summary: | The ending of Mark's Gospel has been the focus of a great deal of discussion in the course of the last hundred years, but it has always been seen as a literary problem. Mark's own work stops abruptly at 16:8, but did he intend to end there? Do the alternative endings represent attempts to replace something that has been lost, or merely indicate dissatisfaction with Mark's intended conclusion? Could a book end with the preposition γρ, and with no closure to the story? Dr Gilfillan Upton now approaches the problem in a new way, applying insights gained from speech act theory. Her aim, however, is not to solve this particular conundrum, but to explore the impact that the various endings would have made on their hearers. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flm003 |