Jesus, Disciple of the Kingdom. Osvaldo D. Vena
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Название: Jesus, Disciple of the Kingdom

Автор: Osvaldo D. Vena

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Религия: прочее

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СКАЧАТЬ sense.”20

      Challenges to the Present Work

      A number of observations are in order here. First, the prescriptive nature of the narrative: Mark is not trying to describe the way Jesus was, but rather, to convince his congregation of how he should be understood. Second, this version is one geared toward a particular congregation. His Christ is the Christ of the Markan community, a group of believers that were undergoing a challenging time, as we will see. In that sense, they were different from the Matthean, Lukan, or the Johannine congregations. Third, Jesus and the people around him are actors in the reality of the text, bearers of the symbolic values that made possible the Christian universe. In this universe, discipleship is a prominent category. And fourth, the author is responsible for the construction, and therefore, present in the text as the structuring consciousness. One of the many ways in which this is implemented is through the rhetorical devices utilized by the evangelist, the most important of which may be the chiastic structure that I propose in chapter 2.