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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798610903321

Autore

Whitenton Michael R.

Titolo

Hearing Kyriotic sonship : a cognitive and rhetorical approach to the characterization of Mark's Jesus / / Michael R. Whitenton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

90-04-32965-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 393 pages)

Collana

Biblical Interpretation Series, , 0928-0731 ; ; Volume 148

Disciplina

226.3/06

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- 1 Introductory Remarks and Assumptions -- 2 Performance, Inference Generation, and Narrative Persuasion -- 3 The Prologue (1:1–13) as Fertile Soil for Kyriotic Sonship -- 4 The Narrative Development of Kyriotic Sonship, Part 1 (1:14–9:13) -- 5 The Narrative Development of Kyriotic Sonship, Part 2 (9:14–13:37) -- 6 The Dramatic Portrayal of Mark’s Jesus as the Kyriotic Son (14:1–16:8) -- 7 Conclusions: Tracing and Unpacking Kyriotic Sonship -- Bibliography -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Index of Names and Subjects.

Sommario/riassunto

In Hearing Kyriotic Sonship Michael Whitenton explores first-century audience impressions of Mark’s Jesus in light of ancient rhetoric and modern cognitive science. Commonly understood as neither divine nor Davidic, Mark’s Jesus appears here as the functional equivalent to both Israel’s god and her Davidic king. The dynamics of ancient performance and the implicit rhetoric of the narrative combine to subtly alter listeners’ perspectives of Jesus. Previous approaches have routinely viewed Mark’s Jesus as neither divine nor Davidic largely on the basis of a lack of explicit affirmations. Drawing our attention to the mechanics of inference generation and narrative persuasion, Whitenton shows us that ancient listeners probably inferred much about Mark’s Jesus that is not made explicit in the narrative.