Crisis and Continuity: Time in the Gospel of Mark
Crisis and Continuity: Time in the Gospel of Mark

Crisis and Continuity: Time in the Gospel of Mark

in Library of New Testament Studies

by Brenda Deen Schildgen

Pages 178
Publisher T&T Clark
Published 1998
ISBN-13 9781850758518
Here is a compact study of how Mark's Gospel meditates on time. It examines how the Gospel's contemporary setting in ordinary time defines its genre, and how Mark uses the Hebrew scriptures to remember and recall past teachings, prophecies and histories. The suspended time narratives, Mark's 'intercalations', on the other hand, interrupt the narrative of the critical time present. Finally, by bringing the eternal horizon into the events of the present, Mark's 'mythic time' reveals the crisis events as a momentary interruption of ordinary time. Similarly, during the 'ritual time', the Gospel narrative breaks with its own historical setting in order to unravel the dead-endedness of the crisis story by symbolically taking it outside time.

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