Mark’s Argumentative Jesus
How Jesus Debated His Opponents Using Greek Forms of Argumentation| By: | Caurie Beaver |
| Publisher: | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Print ISBN: | 9781532646430 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781532646454 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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The author claims that the gospel of Mark is a speech or sermon. To prove this he shows how Mark used many of the elements of Aristotle's rhetoric. Literary critics noticed these rhetorical features in Mark, but remained with a literary critical model of that gospel instead of a rhetorical view that the evidence called for. They continued to translate the first word of Mark, arche, as "beginning" to provide Mark's story of Jesus with a chronological beginning. The author translates Mark's first word as "guiding principle" to provide Mark's persuasive speech or sermon with a logical starting point.