Author : Caurie Beaver
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532646430
Mark's Argumentative Jesus by Caurie Beaver Pdf
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, arché, 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.