Jesus' Defeat of Death: Persuading Mark's Early Readers
Peter Bolt explores the impact of Mark's Gospel on early readers in the first-century Graeco-Roman world. Focusing upon the thirteen characters in Mark who come to Jesus for healing or exorcism, Bolt analyzes their crucial role in the communication of the Gospel. Enlisting a variety of ancient literary and non-literary sources, this book recreates the first-century world of illness, magic and Roman imperialism. This new approach to Mark combines reader-response criticism with social history.
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Jesus' Defeat of Death: Persuading Mark's Early Readers
Peter Bolt explores the impact of Mark's Gospel on early readers in the first-century Graeco-Roman world. Focusing upon the thirteen characters in Mark who come to Jesus for healing or exorcism, Bolt analyzes their crucial role in the communication of the Gospel. Enlisting a variety of ancient literary and non-literary sources, this book recreates the first-century world of illness, magic and Roman imperialism. This new approach to Mark combines reader-response criticism with social history.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780521830362 |
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| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publication date: | 12/11/2003 |
| Series: | Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series , #125 |
| Pages: | 384 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.98(d) |
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