Crisis and Continuity

by Brenda Deen Schildgen

Here is a compact study of how Mark's Gospel meditates on time. It examines how the Gospel's contemporary setting in ordinary time defines its genre, and how Mark uses the Hebrew scriptures to remember and recall past teachings, prophecies and histories. The suspended time narratives, Mark's 'intercalations', on the other hand, interrupt the narrative of the critical time present. Finally, by bringing the eternal horizon into the events of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1850758514
• ISBN13: 9781850758518
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.5"