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The Gospel of Mark: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

Ben Witherington III applies to Mark the socio-rhetorical approach for which he is well known, opening a fresh new perspective on the earliest Gospel. Mark was written when the early Christians were experiencing a major crisis during the Jewish war. He provides us with the first window on how the life and teachings of Jesus were presented to a largely non-Jewish audience. According to...

or revealed a virtuous character), or in some cases “go and do otherwise.” To be sure, there was some overlap of features and aims between biography and history, or between biography and moral philosophy, or between biography and encomium, but one could still tell the difference between a life and a tract of moral philosophy. The point is, as R. Burridge stresses, “Ancient βιος was a flexible genre having strong relationships with history, encomium and rhetoric, moral philosophy and the concern for
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