Prophet, Son, Messiah: Narrative Form and Function in Mark 14-16 - Hardcover

Broadhead, Edwin K.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1850754764 ISBN 13: 9781850754763

Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

Edwin K. Broadhead is Professor of General Studies at Berea College, USA.

Chris Keith is Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway. He is the author of The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John and the Literacy of Jesus, a winner of the 2010 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, and Jesus' Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee. He is also the co-editor of Jesus among Friends and Enemies: A Historical and Literary Introduction to Jesus in the Gospels, and was recently named a 2012 Society of Biblical Literature Regional Scholar.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1850754764
• ISBN 13: 9781850754763
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336