Mark's Argumentative Jesus: How Jesus Debated His Opponents Using Greek Forms of Argumentation

By Caurie Beaver

Book Overview

The author claims that the gospel of Mark is a speech or sermon. To prove this he shows how Mark used many of the elements of Aristotle's rhetoric. Literary critics noticed these rhetorical features in Mark, but remained with a literary critical model of that gospel instead of a rhetorical view that the evidence called for. They continued to translate the first word of Mark, arche, as "beginning" to provide Mark's story of Jesus with a chronological beginning. The author translates Mark's first word as "guiding principle" to provide Mark's persuasive speech or sermon with a logical starting point.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1532646437
• ISBN13: 9781532646430
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"