A Preface to Mark <subTitle>Notes on the Gospel in Its Literary and Cultural Settings</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Bryan, Christopher</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <namePart type="date">1935-</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">5:2</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Oxford University Press</publisher> <dateIssued>1993</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>220tr.</extent> <extent>paperback, illustration</extent> <extent>22 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>A Preface to Mark is a literary study which, from the standpoint of the newer critical methodologies, explores two questions. First, Bryan attempts to determine what kind of text Mark would have been seen to be, both by its author and by others who encountered it near the time of its writing. He examines whether Mark should be seen as an example of any particular literary type, and if so which. He concludes that a comparison of Mark with other texts of the period leads inevitably to the conclusion that Mark's contemporaries would broadly have characterized his work as a ""life."" Second, Bryan looks at the evidence that exists to indicate whether Mark , like so much else of its period, was written to be read aloud. He points out ways in which Mark's narrative would have worked particularly well as rhetoric.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Christopher Bryan</note> <subject> <topic>Bible -- NT -- Gospels -- Mark</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Gospel -- Mark</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Bible -- Criticism and Interpretation</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">226.306</classification> <classification authority="ddc">B915-C56</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780195115673</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/14878/62.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/14878/62.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2024-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071420.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>