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The Gospel on the Margins: The Ideological Function of the Patristic Tradition on the Evangelist Mark
No full textIn spite of the virtually unanimous patristic opinion that the evangelist Mark was the interpreter of Peter, one of the most prestigious apostolic founding figures in Christian memory, the Gospel of Mark was mostly neglected in the patristic period. Not only is the text of Mark the least well represented of the canonical Gospels in terms of the number of patristic citations, commentaries and manuscripts, the explicit comments about the evangelist Mark reveal some ambivalence about its literary or theological value. In my survey of the reception of Mark from Papias of Hierapolis until Clement of Alexandria, I will argue that the reason why the patristic writers were hesitant to embrace the Gospel of Mark was that they perceived the text to be amenable to the Christological beliefs and social praxis of rival Christian factions. The patristic tradition about Mark may have little historical basis, but it had an important ideological function in appropriating the text in the name of an apostolic authority from the margins or periphery
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No full textCondition: Good.; Title devised by cataloguer.; Identity of photographer from National Library of Australia acquisitioning information.; Mark Joseph Allan operated from various studios in Collingwood, Victoria, between 1885 and 1919. Ref.: Australians behind the camera, early Australian photographers / Sandy Barrie, 1992.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24648829; Exhibited: In a New Light: Australian Photography 1850s-1930s, National Library of Australia, 9 October 2003 - 26 January 2004
Interview. Matthew Joseph with Mark Massey
No full textInterview in which Mark Massey discusses hill country blues musi
Mark Heidel's Graduate Recital
No full textOriginal Format: CassetteComposers in the graduate recital: Sergei Prokofiev; Gustav Holst; John Barnes Chance; Vincent Persichetti; Joseph Willcox JenkinsRecital: Conducto
Oral history interview with Mark Kisiel, 2017
No full textTranscript of an oral history interview with Mark M. Kisiel, conducted by Joseph Cates on 23 January 2017, as part of the Norwich Voices oral history project of the Sullivan Museum and History Center. Mark Kisiel graduated from Norwich University in 1959; the bulk of his interview focuses on his experiences as a student at Norwich University, his continuing relationship with the university after graduation, and his business career
AHC interview with Mark Joseph Brunner
No full textJanuary 18, 2008Mark Brunner was born in Vienna, Austria. He grew up in his family’s house in Moedling, a southern suburb of Vienna. His mother was catholic, and his father was Jewish, a descendent from Sephardim (Spanish Jews) who had settled in Hohenems (Austria) in the western province of Vorarlberg in the 17th century. After the ‘Anschluss’ Mark Brunner’s father was arrested and released after a few weeks; his business was confiscated. The family immigrated to the United States, and Mark Brunner eventually settled in San Francisco, CA.Austrian Heritage CollectionThe interview was made possible through a grant of the National Fund of the Republic of Austri
Incomprehension or resistance? : the Markan disciples and the narrative logic of Mark 4:1—8:30
No full textThe characterization of the Markan disciples has been and continues to be the object of much scholarly reflection and speculation. For many, the Markan author’s presentation of Jesus’ disciples holds a key, if not the key, to unlocking the purpose and function of the gospel as a whole. Commentators differ as to whether the Markan disciples ultimately serve a pedagogical or polemical function, yet they are generally agreed that the disciples in Mark come off rather badly, especially when compared to their literary counterparts in Matthew, Luke, and John.
This narrative-critical study considers the characterization of the Markan disciples within the Sea Crossing movement (Mark 4:1–8:30). While commentators have, on the whole, interpreted the disciples’ negative characterization in this movement in terms of lack of faith and/or incomprehension, neither of these, nor a combination of the two, fully accounts for the severity of language leveled against the disciples by the narrator (6:52) and Jesus (8:17–18). Taking as its starting point an argument by Jeffrey B. Gibson (1986) that the harshness of Jesus’ rebuke in Mark 8:14–21 is occasioned not by the disciples’ lack of faith or incomprehension but by their active resistance to his Gentile mission, this investigation uncovers additional examples of the disciples’ resistance to Gentile mission, offering a better account of their negative portrayal within the Sea Crossing movement and helping explain many of their other failures.
In short, this study argues that in Mark 4:1–8:26, the disciples are characterized as resistant to Jesus’ Gentile mission and to their participation in that mission, the chief consequence being that they are rendered incapable of recognizing Jesus’ vocational identity as Israel’s Messiah (Thesis A). This leads to a secondary thesis, namely, that in Mark 8:27–30, Peter’s recognition of Jesus’ messianic identity indicates that the disciples have finally come to accept Jesus’ Gentile mission and their participation in it (Thesis B).
“Chapter One: Introduction” offers a selective review of scholarly treatments of the Markan disciples, which shows that few scholars attribute resistance, let alone purposeful resistance, to the disciples.
“Chapter Two: The Rhetoric of Repetition” introduces the methodological tools, concepts, and perspectives employed in the study. It includes a section on narrative criticism, which focuses upon the story-as-discoursed and the implied author and reader, and a section on Construction Grammar, a branch of cognitive linguistics founded by Charles Fillmore and further developed by Paul Danove, which focuses upon semantic and narrative frames and case frame analysis.
“Chapter Three: The Sea Crossing Movement, Mark 4:1–8:30” addresses the question of Markan structure and argues that Mark 4:1–8:30 comprises a single, unified, narrative movement, whose action and plot is oriented to the Sea of Galilee and whose most distinctive feature is the network of sea crossings that transport Jesus and his disciples back and forth between Jewish and Gentile geopolitical spaces.
Following William Freedman, “Chapter Four: The Literary Motif” introduces two criteria (frequency and avoidability) for determining objectively what constitutes a literary motif and provides the methodological basis and starting point for the analyses performed in chapters five and six.
“Chapter Five: The Sea Crossing Motif” establishes and then carries out a lengthy narrative analysis of the Sea Crossing motif, which is oriented around Mark’s use of θάλασσα (thalassa) and πλοῖον (ploion), and “Chapter Six: The Loaves Motif” does the same for The Loaves motif, oriented around Mark’s use of ἄρτος (artos).
Finally, “Chapter Seven: The Narrative Logic of the Disciples (In)comprehension” draws together all narrative, linguistic, and exegetical insights of the previous chapters and offers a single coherent reading of the Sea Crossing movement that establishes Theses A and B.
Mark Joseph Furry
No full textAn obituary for Mark Joseph Furry, lawyer, Iowa state legislator, and editor of the Alden Times
Mark Joseph Furry
No full textAn obituary for Mark Joseph Furry, lawyer, Iowa state legislator, and editor of the "Alden Times.
Mark Joseph Furry
No full textAn obituary for Mark Joseph Furry, lawyer, Iowa state legislator, and editor of the "Alden Times.
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