Character Studies and the Gospel of Mark

by Matthew Ryan Hauge (Editor), Chris Keith (Editor), Christopher W. Skinner (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780567667892
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	04/21/2016
Series:	The Library of New Testament Studies
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Matthew Ryan Hauge (PhD, Claremont Graduate University) is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Azusa Pacific University in California, 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.

Christopher Skinner is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Mount Olive, USA

Table of Contents

Preface
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction
Part One: Markan Characterization: History and Method

1. 'The Study of Character(s) in the Gospel of Mark: A Survey of Research from Wrede to the Performance Critics' (1903 – 2013)
Christopher W. Skinner, Mount Olive College in North Carolina, USA

2. 'History, Theology, Story: Re-Contextualizing Mark's “Messianic Secret” as Characterization'
Elizabeth Struthers Malbon, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

3. 'The Creation of Person in Ancient Narrative and the Gospel of Mark'
Matthew Ryan Hauge, Azusa Pacific University in California, USA

Part Two:Approaching the Characters of Mark's Gospel

4. 'God as Healer of Creation in the Gospel of Mark'
Ira Brent Driggers, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary of Lenoir-Rhyne University, USA

5. 'The Characterization of Jesus as Lord in Mark's Gospel'
Joel F. Williams, Cedarville University, USA

6. 'Characterizing the Non-Human: Satan in the Gospel of Mark'
Elizabeth E. Shively, University of St Andrews, UK

7. 'The Narrative Rhetoric of Mark's Characterization of Peter'
Paul L. Danove, Villanova University, USA

8. 'Women in Mark's Gospel'
Susan E. Miller, University of Glasgow, UK

9. '“Their Great Ones Act as Tyrants Over Them”: Reading Mark's Characterization of Roman Authorities from a Distinctly Roman Perspective'
Adam Winn, Azusa Pacific University, USA

10. 'Gentile Characters and the Motif of Proclamation in the Gospel of Mark'
Cornelis Bennema, Wales Evangelical School of Theology, UK

Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Christopher W. Skinner and Matthew Ryan Hauge (eds.) have assembled a stellar group of scholars who know (more narrowly) the field of Markan characterization and (more broadly) the field of narrative criticism and because they push forward these disciplines in creative ways.” —D. Keith Campbell, Global Scholars, USA, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society

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