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Semeia 16: Perspectives on Mark’s Gospel is unavailable, but you can change that!

Semeia is an experimental journal devoted to the exploration of new and emergent areas and methods of biblical criticism. Studies employing the methods, models, and findings of linguistics, folklore studies, contemporary literary criticism, structuralism, social anthropology, and other such disciplines and approaches, are invited. Although experimental in both form and content, Semeia proposes to...

disciples’ behavior in relation to their commission (see Tannehill, 1977). The author emphasizes the parallel between Jesus’ commission and the disciples’ commission. The disciples should share in Jesus’ mission and fate. They are meant to be co-ameliorators and co-influencers, subordinate to Jesus but sharing in his work4. In part Jesus fulfills his commission by sharing it with others. The communication of a commission to the disciples allows another story line to unfold, which becomes the locus
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