Sowing the Gospel: Mark's World in Literary-Historical PerspectiveMary Ann Tolbert, George H. Atkinson Professor of Biblical Studies at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California, offers "one of the freshest interpretations of Mark's Gospel I have ever had the privilege to read. . . . It marks a milestone in the recent history of Markan research" (Jack Dean Kingsbury). |
Contents
134Parable of the Sower and Its Interpretations | 148 |
35543Faith or Fear | 164 |
Kingdom of God | 172 |
Summary | 175 |
The Good Earth and the Rocky Ground | 176 |
The Good EarthMiracles and Faith | 181 |
35821 | 183 |
271052 | 187 |
Mobility | 38 |
Insecurity | 39 |
Rhetoric | 41 |
Summary | 46 |
TextSpecific Requirements Genre | 48 |
DefinitionsGenre | 49 |
DefinitionsAuthor Audience | 51 |
DefinitionsAuthorial Audience | 52 |
The Genre of Mark | 55 |
A New Hypothesis for Genre | 59 |
The Gospel of Mark as Popular Literature | 70 |
Summary | 78 |
The Approach Delineated | 80 |
Interpreting the Gospel | 85 |
Beginning the Interpretation | 87 |
Overview of the Gospel of Mark | 90 |
Narrative Levels | 93 |
Irony | 98 |
Third Degree Narrative | 103 |
Introduction to Rhetorical Structure | 106 |
Major Rhetorical DivisionsThe Prologue | 108 |
Major Rhetorical DivisionsTwo Parts | 113 |
The Parables of the Sower and the Tenants | 121 |
Summary | 124 |
Jesus the Sower of the Word | 127 |
1636 | 131 |
735 | 142 |
1225 | 192 |
The Rocky GroundFailure and Fear | 195 |
1731 | 211 |
3272Gethsemane and the Aftermath | 214 |
Typology and Characterization | 218 |
Jesus the Heir of the Vineyard | 231 |
271212The Passion in the Light of the Parable | 233 |
13Jesus and John as Messengers of the Lord | 239 |
1344Jesus as Heir | 248 |
137The Rejected Stone and the Temple Stones | 257 |
2437 | 265 |
The Death of the Heir | 271 |
32155 | 275 |
1639 | 279 |
Suffering and Alienation | 284 |
40168The Ending As Epilogue | 288 |
Conclusion | 301 |
The Historical Setting | 303 |
The Vorleben | 306 |
The Nachleben | 307 |
Rhetorical Structure of Mark | 311 |
The Prologue Mark 1113 Greek Structure | 316 |
Index of Biblical and Ancient Sources | 319 |
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