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Mimetic Criticism and the Gospel of Mark - An Introduction and Commentary (Paperback)
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Mimetic Criticism and the Gospel of Mark - An Introduction and Commentary (Paperback)
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What if the story of Jesus was meant not just to be told but
retold, molded, and shaped into something new, something present by
the Evangelist to face each new crisis? The Evangelists were not
recording a historical report, but writing to effect a change in
their community. Mark was faced with the imminent destruction of
his tiny community-a community leaderless without Paul and Peter
and who witnessed the destruction of the Temple; now, another
messianic figure was claiming the worship rightly due to Jesus. The
author of the Gospel of Mark takes his stylus in hand and begins to
rewrite the story of Jesus-to unwrite the present, rewrite the
past, to change the future. Joel L. Watts moves the Gospel of Mark
to just after the destruction of the Temple, sets it within Roman
educational models, and begins to read the ancient work afresh.
Watts builds upon the historical criticisms of the past, but brings
out a new way of reading the ancient stories of Jesus, and attempts
to establish the literary sources of the Evangelist.
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