Employing a formalistic analysis set within a broad tradition-history context, this analysis investigates the relationship between Passion story and Gospel story in Mark. Broadhead looks especially at the narrative morphology and narrative syntax of individual stories, their relation to the Passion account, and their interaction with the larger world of the narrative. He reveals in Mark 14-16 a carefully-crafted text which is intimately linked to the larger Gospel story. This is particularly true of the strategies of characterization and of the christological portrait they support. This book invites reconsideration of basic questions about Mark: its nature and purpose; the role of the community behind it; assumptions about authorial intention; patterns of development for the Gospel tradition; and the form and function of the Gospel genre.
| ISBN: | 9781850754763 |
| Publication date: | 1st April 1994 |
| Author: | Prof Edwin K. (Berea College, USA) Broadhead |
| Publisher: | Sheffield Academic Press an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 336 pages |
| Series: | The Library of New Testament Studies |
| Genres: |
Christianity Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts New Testaments Bible readings, selections and meditations Religion: general |