Mark
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
In this commentary, Broadhead explores the Gospel of Mark for literary designs which might guide modern readers. He gives special attention to structure, strategy, significance and the appropriation of meaning, and his analysis shows the Gospel as a sequential account which employs a strategy of reciprocity among its episodes. Clear signs are created within this Gospel, the meaning of which is negotiated by the first readers in the aftermath of the Temple's fall. Modern readers are encouraged to connect these signs to their own world and to initiate a new performance of this Gospel.
Top Highlights
“When the leper stands before the priest, a living testimony is given: you have declared me unclean, but you were not able to make me clean. In contrast to this impotence stands the power of Jesus, who has restored the victim to normal human status.” (Pages 29–30)
“overcoming of boundaries—social, physical, religious, geographical—and this too reflects the situation of the community” (Pages 16–17)
“the ideal for discipleship has been demonstrated in a blind beggar from Jericho.” (Page 88)
“but it also signals the restoration of the victim to human status” (Page 29)
“passing by’ is sometimes used to narrate an appearance of Yahweh” (Page 66)
- Title: Mark
- Author: Edwin K. Broadhead
- Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
- Publication Date: 2001
- Pages: 168
Edwin K. Broadhead is Assistant Professor of General Studies, Director of the Campus Christian Center and Campus Minister at Berea College, Berea, Kentucky.