Category: Markan Genre

Book Review: The First Biography of Jesus by Helen Bond

Posted on 2 Jul 2021 by The Amateur Exegete

A review of Helen Bond’s book ‘The First Biography of Jesus.’

Category: 'The First Biography of Jesus' (2020), Biblical Scholars, Biblical Scholarship, Book Reviews, Gospel Genre, Greco-Roman Biography (Bioi), Helen Bond, Markan Genre

Helen Bond: Hazardous Reading of Ancient Texts

Posted on 9 Feb 2021 by The Amateur Exegete

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Helen K. Bond, The First Biography of Jesus: Genre and Meaning in Mark’s Gospel (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2020), 8.

Category: 'The First Biography of Jesus' (2020), Gospel Genre, Gospels, Greco-Roman Biography (Bioi), Helen Bond, Markan Genre

Donahue and Harrington: A Welter of Proposals on the Genre of Mark

Posted on 25 Jul 2018 by The Amateur Exegete

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John R. Donahue and Daniel J. Harrington, The Gospel of Mark, Sacra Pagina (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2002), 16. If awareness of genre is a necessary entree to proper interpretation, then potential readers of Mark may be lost in the welter of proposals. Even… Continue Reading “Donahue and Harrington: A Welter of Proposals on the Genre of Mark”

Category: 'The Gospel of Mark' (Sacra Pagina), Biblical Scholars, Biblical Scholarship, Daniel Harrington, Donahue and Harrington, John R. Donahue, Markan Genre, The Gospel of Mark

Mary Ann Beavis: What Genre is the Gospel of Mark?

Posted on 29 Jun 2018 by The Amateur Exegete

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Mary Ann Beavis, Mark, Paideia Commentaries on the New Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2011), 16. One eminently plausible suggestions regarding the genre of Mark is the observation that the Gospel is most at home in the domain of biblical narrative….Mark’s Jesus functions within… Continue Reading “Mary Ann Beavis: What Genre is the Gospel of Mark?”

Category: 'Mark' (Paideia), Christian Scriptures, Hebrew Scriptures, Jesus, Markan Genre, Mary Ann Beavis, The Gospel of Mark

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