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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...

We know little about the composer of Mark’s Gospel or about the first hearers. The Gospel was unsigned and undated and contains nothing that attests explicitly either to its geographical location or to the specific circumstances of its earliest performances or even to the gender of its originator.1 Nevertheless, for convenience, we will continue to refer to the composer as “Mark.”2 Two major proposals have emerged about the origin of Mark’s Gospel. Some
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