Mimetic Criticism and the Gospel of Mark - Couverture souple

Watts, Joel L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1620322897 ISBN 13 : 9781620322895

Editeur : Wipf and Stock, 2013

Synopsis

What if the story of Jesus was meant not just to be told but retold, molded, and shaped into something new, something present by the Evangelist to face each new crisis? The Evangelists were not recording a historical report, but writing to effect a change in their community. Mark was faced with the imminent destruction of his tiny community-a community leaderless without Paul and Peter and who witnessed the destruction of the Temple; now, another messianic figure was claiming the worship rightly due to Jesus. The author of the Gospel of Mark takes his stylus in hand and begins to rewrite the story of Jesus-to unwrite the present, rewrite the past, to change the future. Joel L. Watts moves the Gospel of Mark to just after the destruction of the Temple, sets it within Roman educational models, and begins to read the ancient work afresh. Watts builds upon the historical criticisms of the past, but brings out a new way of reading the ancient stories of Jesus, and attempts to establish the literary sources of the Evangelist.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Joel L. Watts is a recent graduate of United Theological Seminary, an independent researcher, and a doctoral student pursuing a degree in New Testament.



Jim West is lecturer in biblical studies and church history at Ming Hua Theological College, Hong Kong, and pastor of Petros Baptist Church, Petros, Tennessee. He has written and coedited several volumes.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wipf and Stock
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1620322897
• ISBN 13: 9781620322895
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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