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Informationen zum Autor Peter G. Bolt is the Academic Director of Sydney Divinity College, the Director of the Centre for Gospels and Acts Research, and the editor of the Journal of Gospels and Acts Research. He has published Jesus' Defeat of Death and Mark's Early Readers, The Cross from a Distance, and (with Sharon Beekmann) Silencing Satan. Klappentext Peter Bolt explores the impact of Mark's Gospel on early readers in the first-century Graeco-Roman world. Focusing upon the thirteen characters in Mark who come to Jesus for healing or exorcism! Bolt analyzes their crucial role in the communication of the Gospel. Enlisting a variety of ancient literary and non-literary sources! this book recreates the first-century world of illness! magic and Roman imperialism. This new approach to Mark combines reader-response criticism with social history. Zusammenfassung Peter Bolt explores the impact of Mark's Gospel on its early readers in the first-century Graeco-Roman world. He focuses upon the thirteen characters in Mark who come to Jesus for healing and! using analytical tools of narrative and reader-response criticism! explores their crucial role in the communication of the Gospel. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The beginning of the gospel (Mark 1.1-13); 3. The Kingdom is near (Mark 1.14-4.34); 4. Jesus and the perishing (Mark 4.35-8.26); 5. Entering the coming Kingdom (Mark 8.27-10.52); 6. The clash of Kingdoms (Mark 11.1-13.37); 7. The coming of the Kingdom (Mark 14-16); 8. Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.
