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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...

Prologue The Good News Begins (Mark 1:1–13) The first literary unit in the life of Jesus is held together by an inclusion in 1:1–3 and 1:14–15: the word “good news” (euangelion) followed by an ambiguous genitive (good news of/about Jesus Christ, 1:1; good news of/about God, 1:14). The evangelist explicitly connects the beginning of the good news about Jesus Christ with the Scriptures as he knows them in the LXX; for him, the good news about Jesus begins with the prophecy of Isaiah. And in fact, the
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