Historical Crisis and Cosmic Crisis in Mark 13 and Lucan’s Civil War

This article suggests that the association of the fall of Jerusalem and the consummation of the age in Mark 13 finds a parallel in the linkage of the collapse of the Roman Republic and the collapse of the cosmos in Lucan’s Civil War. Both texts, it is proposed, link a historical catastrophe with the...

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Main Author: Adams, Edward 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 1997
In: Tyndale bulletin
Year: 1997, Volume: 48, Issue: 2, Pages: 329-344
Further subjects:B fall of jerusalem
B Synoptic Gospels
B Gospels
B mark
B New Testament
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Summary:This article suggests that the association of the fall of Jerusalem and the consummation of the age in Mark 13 finds a parallel in the linkage of the collapse of the Roman Republic and the collapse of the cosmos in Lucan’s Civil War. Both texts, it is proposed, link a historical catastrophe with the end of the world/age in broadly similar ways.
ISSN:0082-7118
Contains:Enthalten in: Tyndale bulletin
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.53751/001c.30373