Character studies and the gospel of Mark
By: edited by Christopher W. Skinner, Matthew Ryan Hauge
Edition: First edition.
Series: Library of New Testament studies -- 483
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780567501608
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Hermeneutics; Characters and characteristics in the Bible; Bible
Description: Characters in the Second Gospel are analysed and an in-depth look at different approaches currently employed by scholars working with literary and reader-oriented methods of analysis is provided. The first section consists of essays on method/theory, and the second consists of seven exegetical character studies using a literary or reader-oriented method. All contributors work from a literary, narrative-critical, reader-oriented, or related methodology. The book summarizes the state of the discussion and examines obstacles to arriving at a comprehensive theory of character in the Second Gospel. Specific contributions include analyses of the representation of women, God, Jesus, Satan, Gentiles, and the Roman authorities of Mark's Gospel. This work is both an exploration of theories of character, and a study in the application of those theories