A Comparative Handbook to the Gospel of Mark: Comparisons with Pseudepigrapha, the Qumran Scrolls, and Rabbinic Literature. Edited by Bruce Chilton, Darrell Bock, Daniel M. Gurtner, Jacob Neusner, Lawrence H. Schiffman, and Daniel Oden
This first in a series of ‘handbooks’ on the context of the New Testament gospels is written to accompany Mark, now generally agreed to have been the first of the gospels to be composed. This is the first major difference to the series which it surely seeks to succeed, the hefty Strack–Billerbeck Ko...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2014
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 65, Issue: 1, Pages: 212-214 |
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| Summary: | This first in a series of ‘handbooks’ on the context of the New Testament gospels is written to accompany Mark, now generally agreed to have been the first of the gospels to be composed. This is the first major difference to the series which it surely seeks to succeed, the hefty Strack–Billerbeck Kommentar zum neuen Testament aus Talmud und Midrasch, which took the gospels in canonical order. What the editors also now seek to add are elements from pseudepigrapha and, of course, the Qumran scrolls. These three categories together constitute the Judaic context of Mark, that is, ‘resources from the Judaic environment that appear useful for understanding the text’ (p. xii). They hope to avoid the ‘parallelomania’ of commentators such as Strack–Billerbeck (p. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flu014 |