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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...

A variety of external and internal features of Mark’s Gospel point us toward it being a biography of some sort. Firstly, it is the right length, and in fact is clearly much shorter than Luke or Matthew (Mark has 11,242 words, Luke 19,428, Matthew 18,305).17 Matthew and Luke are actually at the upper limits for a biography (Luke being at the upper limits for what a single scroll could contain), but Mark is closely similar to the average length of one of Plutarch’s Lives. Secondly, even at a glance
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