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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...

In this section we see once more an example of Mark’s “sandwich” technique, with one story used as a frame for another, and both stories meant to interpret each other. It is doubtful that we should see here some actual chronological sequence. Mark has created suspense by delaying not only the action in the temple but also the withering of the fig tree.29 The point of both the cursing of the fig tree and the action in the temple is that they figure forth the coming judgment of God on the heart of
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