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What difference does it make to identify Mark's gospel as an ancient biography?
Reading the gospels as ancient biographies makes a profound difference to the way that we interpret them. Biography immortalizes the memory of the subject, creating a literary monument to the person’s life and teaching. Yet it is also a bid to legitimize a specific view of that figure and to position an author and his audience as appropriate "gatekeepers" of that memory. Biography was well suited to the articulation of shared values and commitments, the formation of group identity, and the binding together of a past story, present concerns, and future hopes.
Helen Bond argues that Mark’s author used the genre of biography to extend the gospel from an earlier narrow focus on the death and resurrection of Jesus so that it included the way of life of its founding figure. Situating Jesus at the heart of a biography was a bold step in outlining a radical form of Christian discipleship patterned on the life – and death – of Jesus.
Title: The First Biography of Jesus: Genre and Meaning in Mark's Gospel By: Helen K. Bond Format: Hardcover Number of Pages: 360 Vendor: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Publication Date: 2020 | Dimensions: 9 X 6 (inches) Weight: 1 pound 5 ounces ISBN: 0802874606 ISBN-13: 9780802874603 Stock No: WW874603 |
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