Roskam, H. N. The Purpose of the Gospel of Mark in Its Historical and Social Context. NovTSup 114. Leiden: Brill, 2004. Winn, Adam. The Purpose of Mark’s Gospel: An Early Christian Response to Roman Imperial Propaganda. WUNT 2/245. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2008. Mark’s Gospel is a narrative. It is a historical narrative, but a narrative nonetheless, which has implications for the overall structure of the book. The outline presented in this exegetical guide seeks to take seriously the narrative
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