Author | : Sharyn Echols Dowd |
Publisher | : Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : 9781573122887 |
Dowd examines the Gospel of Mark from literary and theological perspectives, suggesting what the text may have meant to its first-century audience of Gentile and Jewish Christians. Mark is a Greco-Roman biography of Jesus written in an apocalyptic mode. Its theology is based on the message of the prophet Isaiah- the proclamation of release from bondage and a march toward freedom along the "way of the Lord."