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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...

Second, read Mark independently from the other Gospels. In narrative study, we cannot legitimately use the other Gospels to “fill out” or to “fill in”—as a way to explain or elaborate Mark’s story. For example, if we read Mark’s story in light of the birth narratives from Matthew or Luke, we have already significantly changed Mark’s story, because Mark does not contain these events. Or if we read an episode in Mark in light of details given about the same episode in one of the other Gospels, we will
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