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The Transfiguration of Jesus: Narrative Meaning and Function of Mark 9:2–8, Matt 17:1–8 and Luke 9:28–36 is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is the first monograph devoted to all three accounts of the transfiguration of Jesus from a narrative-critical, audience-oriented perspective. It proposes a new literary genre designation for all three versions, that a “pivotal mandatory epiphany,” based upon the precedents in Numbers 22:31–35, Joshua 5:13–15, and 2 Maccabees 3:22–34. The background and meaning of each of the major motifs...

example of what the disciples and audience are to listen to, as enjoined by the pivotal mandate, the “command” of God’s voice from the bright, overshadowing cloud (17:5). With the authority of God the Father, who “commands” (ἐντελεῖται, 4:6) and speaks the “commandment” (ἐντολὴν, 15:3–4), Jesus, his beloved and favored Son (17:5), “commands” the disciples.2 The command of Jesus reminds the audience that after Peter confessed Jesus to be the Christ, the Son of the living God (16:16), Jesus “ordered” (διεστείλατο)
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