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Mark as Story: An Introduction to the Narrative of a Gospel is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this third edition of Mark as Story, Rhoads, Dewey, and Michie take their treatment of the Gospel of Mark to new levels. While retaining their clear and thorough analysis of Mark as a narrative, they now place their study of Mark in the context of orality. The new preface explains the role of Mark in a predominantly oral culture. Throughout the study, they refer to the author as composer, the...

Plot has to do with events: how they are arranged, how they are connected, and what they reveal. Events are actions or happenings that bring about change. Events, of course, are inseparable from settings and characters: settings provide the conditions for events, and characters are the agents who cause and react to events. But to focus on plot enables us to see the design of events that gives a narrative its meaning and direction.1 In this chapter, we will
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