Peter Bolt explores the impact of Mark's Gospel on its early
readers in the first-century Graeco-Roman world. His book focuses
upon the thirteen characters in Mark who come to Jesus for healing
or exorcism and, using analytical tools of narrative and
reader-response criticism, explores their crucial role in the
communication of the Gospel. Bolt suggests that early readers of
Mark would be persuaded that Jesus' dealings with the suppliants
show him casting back the shadow of death and that this in itself
is preparatory for Jesus' final defeat of death in resurrection.
Enlisting a variety of ancient literary and non-literary sources in
an attempt to illuminate this first-century world, this book gives
special attention to illness, magic and the Roman imperial system.
This is a different approach to Mark, which attempts to break the
impasse between narrative and historical studies and will appeal to
scholars and students alike.
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