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Characters in the second Gospel are analysed and an in-depth look at different approaches currently employed by scholars working with literary and reader-oriented methods of analysis is provided. The first section consists of essays on method/theory, and the second consists of seven exegetical character studies using a literary or reader-oriented method. All contributors work from a literary,...

should place themselves ‘last and servant of all’ (9:37; 10:44). In the meeting of the women characters and Jesus new values emerge expressing the values of the kingdom of God. There is some evidence of debates over the relationship between Jews and Gentiles in the early church (cf. Acts 15:1–29; Rom. 9–11; Gal. 2:11–15). In his study of Gentile characters in Mark’s Gospel, Kelly Iverson notes that the Jewish mission takes place before the Gentile mission but Gentiles also receive the ‘benefits of
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