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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...

Werner H. Kelber Rice University In contemporary linguistic terminology, this study is about oral poetics and generative poetics, and the need to keep these two semantic worlds apart. Specifically, this study discusses the Bultmannian concept of an evolutionary continuity between pre-Markan orality and Markan textuality. The central thesis states that the gospel is more in tension with than an extension of oral processes. The writing performance of Mark is subject
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