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List of contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Part 1: The Methodological Study: The Semantic, Narrative, and Rhetorical Methods of Analysis and Description
Chapter 1: The Method of Semantic Analysis and Description
Chapter 2: The Method of Narrative Analysis and Description
Chapter 3: The Method of Rhetorical Analysis and Description and the Theological Study
Part 2: The Exegetical Study: The Semantic and Narrative Analysis of the Content of Rhetorical Contexts
Chapter 4: Rhetorical Contexts in Mark 1-9
Chapter 5: Rhetorical Contexts in Mark 10-15
Part 3: The Theological Study: The Repeated Actions and Attributes of God
Chapter 6: God as Agent
Chapter 7: God as Agentive Benefactive
Chapter 8: God as Innate and Originating Benefactive
Chapter 9: God as Recipient and Reciprocal Benefactive
Chapter 10: God as Content, Experiencer, Goal, and Instrument
Chapter 11: God as Patient, Source, Theme, and Topic
Appendices
Index of Authors
About the author
Paul Danove is Professor of New Testament Studies at Villanova University, USA.
Summary
Paul L. Danove presents the first full-length study of God and the theology of God in the Gospel of Mark. In dialogue with scholars who assume that texts are designed to guide their own interpretation, Danove develops and applies methods of analysis to describe the actions and attributes of God in the Gospel of Mark.
Danove presents his argument in a threefold structure, beginning with outlining a set of complementary semantic, narrative, and rhetorical methods for investigating characterization. He then moves to examine the semantic and narrative content related to the character of God in the Gospel of Mark and then formulates this information under the guidance of the narrative rhetoric into statements of God’s fifty-six repeated and sixty-two non-repeated actions and attributes, arranged according to God’s portrayal as semantic agent, benefactive, content of human experience, experiencer, goal, instrument, patient of predication, source, theme, and topic of faith.
Foreword
A thorough and complete study of God in the gospel of Mark that is suited for biblical scholars, theologians in general and Roman Catholic and systematic theologians in particular.
Additional text
The author of this work presents a new and very detailed image of God in the Gospel of Mark with the rigorous application of strictly conceived semantic, narrative and rhetorical criteria. This book comes to fill a void in studies about God in Mark’s Gospel in a complete, exhaustive way to students and theologians.
