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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789662503321

Autore

Schildgen Brenda Deen <1942->

Titolo

Crisis and continuity : time in the Gospel of Mark / / Brenda Deen Schildgen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheffield, England : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , [1998]

©1998

ISBN

1-283-19694-8

9786613196941

0-567-34358-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (179 p.)

Collana

Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; ; 159

Library of New Testament studies

Disciplina

226.3/06

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-168) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1; MARKAN PRESENT TIME: THE GOSPEL AS PICARESQUE NOVELLA; Chapter 2; NARRATIVE AS MEMORY: GOSPEL AS FRAGMENTS; Chapter 3; NARRATIVE DURATION: SUSPENDED TIME; Chapter 4; THE END OF FEAR: MYTHIC TIME IN THE GOSPEL OF MARK; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors

Sommario/riassunto

Here is a compact study of how Mark's Gospel meditates on time. It examines how the Gospel's contemporary setting in ordinary time defines its genre, and how Mark uses the Hebrew scriptures to remember and recall past teachings, prophecies and histories. The suspended time narratives, Mark's 'intercalations', on the other hand, interrupt the narrative of the critical time present. Finally, by bringing the eternal horizon into the events of the present, Mark's 'mythic time' reveals the crisis events as a momentary interruption of ordinary time. Similarly, during the 'ritual time', the Gospel na