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Reading Mark: A Literary and Theological Commentary on the Second Gospel is unavailable, but you can change that!

Sharyn Dowd examines the Gospel of Mark from literary and theological perspectives, suggesting what the text may have meant to its first-century audience of Gentile and Jewish Christians. Dowd sees the gospel of Mark as a Greco-Roman biography written in an apocalyptic mode, its theology based on the message of the prophet Isaiah—the proclamation of release from bondage and a march toward freedom...

unfinished appearance of the works. In addition, Virgil’s Aeneid ends abruptly on “a note of tension,” which provoked a number of more satisfactory sequels (Magness 1986, 28, 31–36; see also Cox 1993). If the author of Mark intended to close the Gospel at 16:8, why would he have done so? Certainly the fact that he is able to tell the story at all means that somehow someone told another that Jesus had been raised from the dead. The resurrection and the power of the risen Lord in the community of faith
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