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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...

in the narrative. The narrator is not the author/composer, but a device the composer uses to get the story told. Setting refers to the contexts within the story—the depiction of the cosmos, the social and political world of the story, as well as the specific temporal and spatial contexts in which events take place. Plot involves events—their order in the narrative, sequential relations, turning points and breakthroughs, and the development and resolution of conflicts. Characters are the actors in
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