The Case for Proto-Mark

The Case for Proto-Mark PDF Author: Delbert Burkett
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 3161555163
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
The most common explanation for the material shared by Matthew and Luke (the double tradition) is that Matthew and Luke both used a source now lost, called Q. If we adopt the Q hypothesis to account for the double tradition, then what theory best accounts for the material that Matthew and Luke share with Mark? Three main theories have been proposed: Matthew and Luke used the Gospel of Mark as a source (the standard theory of Markan priority), Matthew and Luke used a revised version of Mark's gospel (the Deutero-Mark hypothesis), or all three evangelists used a source similar to, but earlier than, the Gospel of Mark (the Proto-Mark hypothesis). Delbert Burkett provides new data that calls into question the standard theory of Markan priority and the Deutero-Mark hypothesis. He offers the most comprehensive case to date for the Proto-Mark hypothesis, concluding that this theory best accounts for the Markan material.

Rethinking the Gospel Sources

Rethinking the Gospel Sources PDF Author: Delbert Burkett
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780567025401
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
Offers a fresh reading of the much-debated Synoptic Problem.

The Case for a Proto-Gospel

The Case for a Proto-Gospel PDF Author: Gary Greenberg
Publisher: Studies in Biblical Literature
ISBN: 9781433166051
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This landmark study of the literary relationship between the gospel of John and the synoptic gospels presents compelling evidence for the existence of a written pre-canonical Alpha gospel that contained almost all of the main episodes in the adult life of Jesus and which became the written source for the core biography of Jesus in all four gospels.

The Case for a Proto-Gospel

The Case for a Proto-Gospel PDF Author: Gary Greenberg
Publisher: Studies in Biblical Literature
ISBN: 9781433197772
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This landmark study of the literary relationship between the gospel of John and the synoptic gospels presents compelling evidence for the existence of a written pre-canonical Alpha gospel that contained almost all of the main episodes in the adult life of Jesus and which became the written source for the core biography of Jesus in all four gospels.

The Synoptic Problem

The Synoptic Problem PDF Author: Mark Goodacre
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780567080561
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 188

Book Description
A lively, readable and up-to-date guide to the Synoptic Problem, ideal for undergraduate students, and the general reader.

Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind

Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind PDF Author: Mark Pagel
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393065871
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 431

Book Description
A fascinating, far-reaching study of how our species' innate capacity for culture altered the course of our social and evolutionary history. A unique trait of the human species is that our personalities, lifestyles, and worldviews are shaped by an accident of birth—namely, the culture into which we are born. It is our cultures and not our genes that determine which foods we eat, which languages we speak, which people we love and marry, and which people we kill in war. But how did our species develop a mind that is hardwired for culture—and why? Evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel tracks this intriguing question through the last 80,000 years of human evolution, revealing how an innate propensity to contribute and conform to the culture of our birth not only enabled human survival and progress in the past but also continues to influence our behavior today. Shedding light on our species’ defining attributes—from art, morality, and altruism to self-interest, deception, and prejudice—Wired for Culture offers surprising new insights into what it means to be human.

The Case Against Q

The Case Against Q PDF Author: Mark Goodacre
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781563383342
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
The resurrection of Jesus is thoroughly explored, using extra-canonical sources to fill in the blanks. Original.

The Gospel According to Mark

The Gospel According to Mark PDF Author:
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 0857860976
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 73

Book Description
The earliest of the four Gospels, the book portrays Jesus as an enigmatic figure, struggling with enemies, his inner and external demons, and with his devoted but disconcerted disciples. Unlike other gospels, his parables are obscure, to be explained secretly to his followers. With an introduction by Nick Cave

Proclaiming the Gospel

Proclaiming the Gospel PDF Author: Whitney Shiner
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0826462200
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 239

Book Description
Scholars have long understood that the texts we now know as the Gospels were read aloud in the Greco-Roman world, but few have actually envisioned what a performance of the Gospel of Mark would have been like in the first century and how it would have shaped the experience of its audience. Proclaiming the Gospel shows us. Oral performances in the New Testament world were lively affairs. In the performance of Greco-Roman theater, readers lose their voices from the stress of emotional passages. Audiences cheer for philosophers as if at a rock concert, and in law courts, they are paid for their responses. Storytellers compete for attention with jugglers, and some speakers must fend off hostile crowds. Congregations at churches and synagogues cheer as if at the theater. Shiner reveals the ways that Mark wrote his Gospel to compete in this arena and how his audiences would have responded: applause for the miracles of Jesus, then an altogether different response at the cross. Whitney Shiner is Assistant Professor of Christian Origins at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, and the author of Follow Me: Disciples in markan Rhetoric.

The Son of Man Debate

The Son of Man Debate PDF Author: Delbert Burkett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139429809
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
The expression 'Son of Man', used in the Gospels almost exclusively by Jesus, has been the object of intensive study since the Protestant Reformation, yet scholars have come to no agreement on its origin or meaning. Research in this area has been described as 'a veritable mine field' and 'a can of worms'. Because of the scope and complexity of the literature, no comprehensive survey of the subject has been written in the twentieth century. Delbert Burkett's book fills this need. It provides a comprehensive historical overview of the debate from the patristic period to 1996, and gives an evaluation of that research and a summation of the present state of the question. Burkett concludes that despite nineteen centuries of 'Son of Man' study there is no consensus concerning the meaning or origin of the expression; the debate is therefore a prime example of the limits of New Testament scholarship.