The Problem of Markan Genre: The Gospel of Mark and the Jewish Novel (Academia Biblica)
Michael E. Vines
This study wrestles with the problem of the literary genre of Mark's gospel. Drawing on Bakhtin's theory of genre and his examination of Greco-Roman literary genres, the author compares the latter with the Gospel of Mark. Although the Gospel of Mark is in some respects similar to Greco-Roman novelistic genres, the author maintains that it compares more favourably with Jewish novelistic literature of the Hellenistic period, and that Mark writes within this narrative tradition. In both the Gospel of Mark and the Jewish novel, salvation is accomplished through divinely appointed agents. In telling the story of Jesus the messiah, Mark adapts a narrative tradition that formerly served to subvert foreign oppressors, and uses it against the Jewish leaders who oppose Jesus.
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Year:
2002
Publisher:
Brill Academic Publishers
Language:
english
Pages:
232
ISBN 10:
158983030X
ISBN 13:
9789004126930
Series:
Society of Biblical Literature Academia Biblica 3
File:
PDF, 10.12 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2002
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