The 'Gospel' between Emperor and Temple in the Gospel of Mark
Author: Morten Hørning Jensen
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2023-06-13
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 3161618580
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Messiah and Temple
Author: Donald Juel
Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13:
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Author: Adam Winn
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9783161496356
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Moderate revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Fuller Theological Seminary, 2007.
The Son of God in the Roman World
Author: Michael Peppard
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-07-18
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 0199877041
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the 2013 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise Michael Peppard examines the social and political meaning of divine sonship in the Roman Empire. He begins by analyzing the conceptual framework within which the term ''son of God'' has traditionally been considered in biblical scholarship. Then, through engagement with recent scholarship in Roman history - including studies of family relationships, imperial ideology, and emperor worship - he offers new ways of interpreting the Christian theological metaphors of ''begotten''and ''adoptive'' sonship. Peppard focuses on social practices and political ideology, revealing that scholarship on divine sonship has been especially hampered by mistaken assumptions about adopted sons. He invites fresh readings of several early Christian texts, from the first Gospel to writings of the fourth century. By re-interpreting several ancient phenomena - particularly divine status, adoption, and baptism - he offers an imaginative refiguring of the Son of God in the Roman world.
The Gospel of Mark and the Roman-Jewish War of 66–70 CE
Author: Stephen Simon Kimondo
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2018-07-19
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1532653042
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book interprets Mark's gospel in light of the Roman-Jewish War of 66-70 CE. Locating the authorship of Mark's gospel in rural Galilee or southern Syria after the fall of Jerusalem and the temple, and after Vespasian's enthronement as the new emperor, Kimondo argues that Mark's first hearers--people who lived through and had knowledge of the important events of the war--may have evaluated Mark's story of Jesus as a contrast to Roman imperial values. He makes an intriguing case that Jesus' proclamation as the Messiah in the villages of Caesarea Philippi set up a deliberate contrast between Jesus's teaching and Vespasian's proclamation of himself as the world's divine ruler. He suggests that Mark's hearers may have interpreted Jesus' liberative campaign in Galilee as a deliberate contrast to Vespasian's destructive military campaigns in the area. Jesus's teachings about wealth, power, and status while on the way to Jerusalem may have been heard as contrasts to Roman imperial values; hence, the entire story of Jesus may have been interpreted an anti-imperial narrative.
The Gospel to the Romans [electronic resource]
Author: Brian J. Incigneri
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9789004131088
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book proposes that Mark's Gospel was written in late 71 for the traumatised Christians of Rome, who feared further arrests after Titus' return from Jerusalem, to help them face their fears and forgive those who had already failed.
The Date of Mark's Gospel
Author: James G. Crossley
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2004-06-15
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0567081958
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book argues that Mark's gospel was not written as late as c. 65-75 CE, but dates from sometime between the late 30s and early 40s CE. It challenges the use of the external evidence (such as Irenaeus and Clement of Alexandria) often used for dating Mark, relying instead on internal evidence from the gospel itself. James Crossley also questions the view that Mark 13 reflects the Jewish war, arguing that there are other plausible historical settings. Crossley argues that Mark's gospel takes for granted that Jesus fully observed biblical law and that Mark could only make such an assumption at a time when Christianity was largely law observant: and this could not have been later than the mid-40s, from which point on certain Jewish and gentile Christians were no longer observing some biblical laws (e.g. food, Sabbath).
Reading Mark in Context
Author: Zondervan,
Publisher: Zondervan Academic
Published: 2018-08-21
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0310534461
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Over the last several decades, the Jewishness of Jesus has been at the forefront of scholarship and students of the New Testament are more than ever aware of the importance of understanding Jesus and the Gospels in their Jewish context. Reading Mark in Context helps students see the contour and texture of Jesus' engagement with his Jewish environment. It brings together a series of accessible essays that compare and contrast viewpoints, theologies, and hermeneutical practices of Mark and his various Jewish contemporaries. Going beyond an introduction that merely surveys historical events and theological themes, this textbook examines individual passages in Second Temple Jewish literature in order to illuminate the context of Mark's theology and the nuances of his thinking. Following the narrative progression of Mark's Gospel, each chapter in this textbook (1) pairs a major unit of the Gospel with one or more sections of a thematically-related Jewish text, (2) introduces and explores the historical and theological nuances of the comparative text, and (3) shows how the ideas in the comparative text illuminate those expressed in Mark.
The Gospel of Mark
Author: Timothy R. Carmody
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 1587681307
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mimetic Criticism and the Gospel of Mark
Author: Joel L. Watts
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2013-02-01
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1620322897
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What if the story of Jesus was meant not just to be told but retold, molded, and shaped into something new, something present by the Evangelist to face each new crisis? The Evangelists were not recording a historical report, but writing to effect a change in their community. Mark was faced with the imminent destruction of his tiny community--a community leaderless without Paul and Peter and who witnessed the destruction of the Temple; now, another messianic figure was claiming the worship rightly due to Jesus. The author of the Gospel of Mark takes his stylus in hand and begins to rewrite the story of Jesus--to unwrite the present, rewrite the past, to change the future. Joel L. Watts moves the Gospel of Mark to just after the destruction of the Temple, sets it within Roman educational models, and begins to read the ancient work afresh. Watts builds upon the historical criticisms of the past, but brings out a new way of reading the ancient stories of Jesus, and attempts to establish the literary sources of the Evangelist.
