
Genres of Mark
Reading Mark's Gospel from Micro and Macro Perspectives
Jacob P. B. Mortensen(Editor)
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (Publisher)
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Published on 14. November 2022
237 pages
978-3-647-56060-1 (ISBN)
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One of the most fundamental questions when reading and trying to understand New Testament texts is the question of genre. It is impossible to understand a text, its meaning and intention, in its proper historical setting if one does not understand its genre: As an example, interpreting a satirical text without understanding the genre would no doubt lead to grave misunderstandings. The same logic applies to texts from the New Testament, and the matter is complicated even further by the immense historical gap between the time of the genesis of the New Testament canon and now. The problem of the New Testament texts' genre(s) is therefore a vital area of scholarly discussion within international New Testament scholarship. The current volume utilizes the newest insights from current research on the New Testament to cast new light on the question of the genre of Mark's Gospel. Here, prominent international New Testament scholars discuss how we should understand the genre(s) of Mark's Gospel, thus making an important contribution to international scholarship on the Gospel of Mark as well as the Gospel genre in general.
PhD Jacob P.B. Mortensen is Assistant Professor at Aarhus University (Denmark).
PhD Jacob P.B. Mortensen is Assistant Professor at Aarhus University (Denmark).
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PhD Jacob P.B. Mortensen is Assistant Professor at Aarhus University (Denmark).
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Jacob P.B. Mortensen and Mikael Brorson: The Gospel of Mark in the Context of Ancient Greco-Roman Education - A Search for Comparable Genres
- Body
- Tobias Hägerland: Reminiscences True, Noble and Beneficial: Mark 2:1-3:6 in the Light of Theon's Chreia Exercises
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Chreiai and Reminiscences in Mark and Theon
- 3. Theon's Chreia Exercises and the Composition of Biographies
- 4. A Sequence of Reminiscences in Mark's Life of Jesus (2:1-3:6)
- 5. Conclusion
- Justin Strong: The Markan 'Parables' and Ancient Rhetorical Theories of Fable and Comparison
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Fable in Ancient Education
- 2.1 Progymnasmata
- 2.2 Theon's Definition of the Fable
- 2.3 Theon on Weaving Fables into a Narrative
- 2.4 Myths about the Fable and the Meaning of pa?aß???
- 3. Mark's Fables and Comparisons
- 4. Conclusion
- Joel Kuhlin: Suturing Episodes: Jesus' Death, d????s?? and d????µa in Mk. 15:16-32
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Orders of Narration: History, Narrative, Short Story
- 1.2 Orders of Narration in The Progymnasmata
- 1.3 Narration in Theon's Progymnasmata
- 1.4 Paradigmatic Narration in Theon
- 2. The Passion Narrative: d????µa or d????s???
- 2.1 s?µp???e?? & the Suturing of Episodes
- 2.2 Episode One: 15:16-20a as d????µa
- 2.3 Episode Two: 15:20b-27 as d????µa
- 2.4 Episode Three: 15:29-32 as ??e?a
- 2.5 Suturing 15:16-20a with 15:20b-27 and 15:29-32
- 3. Chariton's Callirhoe and Passion Narrative
- 3.1 Concluding Discussion: Suturing Episodes of Jesus' Death
- Maria Sturesson: Ekphrasis and The Gospel of Mark
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Ekphrasis and the Progymnasmata
- 3. Vividness and realism
- 4. Follow the gaze to the Empty Tomb
- 5. Conclusions
- Sigurvin Lárus Jónsson: Mark and Speech-in-Character
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Speech-in-character in the Progymnasmata
- 3. Speech-in-character in the Critical Essays of Dionysius of Halicarnassus
- 4. Herod Antipas' speech-in-character (Mark 6.16, 22-3)
- 5. Pilate's speech-in-character (Mark 15)
- 6. Conclusion
- Jacob P.B. Mortensen: Mark 5:21-43 as a Progymnastic Comparison
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Theon's Progymnasmata
- 3. Ancient Literary Examples of Comparisons
- 4. Synkrisis in Mk 5:21-43
- 5. Conclusion
- Helen K. Bond: Mark as a Biography (bios) of a Philosopher
- 1. Greek philosophical bioi
- 2. Mark the Biographer
- 3. Mark's Portrait of Jesus
- 4. Other Characters
- 5. The Death of Jesus
- 6. Final Reflection
- Eve-Marie Becker: Markus, der Historiograph
- 1. Hinführung
- 2. "Markus": Der "Historiograph" als "Autor"
- 2.1 Der lange Weg zum Autorschaftskonzept
- 2.2 Autorschaftskonzepte im Rahmen antiker Historiographie
- 3. Kurzer Ausblick: Ertrag für "Markus" und die progymnasmata und weiterführende Fragen
- Matthew D. C. Larsen: According to Mark as Hypomnemata: From Working Document to Pre-Literary Notes
- 1. Varieties of ?p?µ??µata
- 2. According to Mark as ?p?µ??µata
- 3. Conclusion
- Appendix A: Use of ?a? in Mark 3
- Appendix B: Questions from Jesus in the Gospel according to Mark:
- Sylvie Honigman: Mark's Gospel as a cultic biography in the tradition of the Judean and Demotic stories narrativizing knowledge
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Defining Judean and Demotic Narratives
- 2.1 "Jewish Fiction" vs. "Judean Narratives"
- 2.2 Demotic Narratives
- 2.3 Demotic and Judean Narratives as Serious Literature: The Evidence of their Ancient Reception
- 2.4 Demotic Narratives: Compositional Influence
- 2.5 Summary
- 3. Biographies of Magicians and Kings
- 3.1 Revered Figures of Magicians in Greco-Roman Egypt
- 3.2 Literary Magicians: The Demotic Stories
- 3.3 Mark's Jesus and the Egyptian Demiurgic Magician
- 3.4 Hellenistic Royal Biographies and the Ruler Cult
- 4. Conclusions
- John Van Maaren: Constructing Mark's Social Setting: Fissures in Gentile Mark
- Blueprints for Jewish Mark
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Jewishness of Mark in Current Scholarship
- 3. Re-Considering the Importance of Mark's Relationship to Paul
- 4. Testing the Structural Integrity of Gentile Mark
- Blueprints for Mark within Judaism
- 5. Implications and areas for further research
- Author index
- Subject index
- Index of Scriptures
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