Theology of the Gospel of Mark: A Semantic, Narrative, and Rhetorical Study of the Characterization of God (T&T Clark Biblical Studies)
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Overview
Paul L. Danove presents the first full-length study of God and the theology of God in the Gospel of Mark. In dialogue with scholars who assume that texts are designed to guide their own interpretation, Danove develops and applies methods of analysis to describe the actions and attributes of God in the Gospel of Mark.
Danove presents his argument in a threefold structure, beginning with outlining a set of complementary semantic, narrative, and rhetorical methods for investigating characterization. He then moves to examine the semantic and narrative content related to the character of God in the Gospel of Mark and then formulates this information under the guidance of the narrative rhetoric into statements of God's fifty-six repeated and sixty-two non-repeated actions and attributes, arranged according to God's portrayal as semantic agent, benefactive, content of human experience, experiencer, goal, instrument, patient of predication, source, theme, and topic of faith.
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- Proposes a set of complementary semantic, narrative, and rhetorical methods for investigating characterization (Methodological Study)
- Re- presents the narrative and narratively-interpreted semantic content of the contexts containing the 314 references to the character God in the Gospel of Mark (Exegetical Study)
- Develops statements of the fifty-six repeated actions and attributes of God within Mark 1:1–16:8 (Theological Study)
Part 1: The Methodological Study: The Semantic, Narrative, and Rhetorical Methods of Analysis and Description
- The Method of Semantic Analysis and Description
- The Method of Narrative Analysis and Description
- The Method of Rhetorical Analysis and Description and the Theological Study
Part 2: The Exegetical Study: The Semantic and Narrative Analysis of the Content of Rhetorical Contexts
- Rhetorical Contexts in Mark 1-9
- Rhetorical Contexts in Mark 10-15
Part 3: The Theological Study: The Repeated Actions and Attributes of God
- God as Agent
- God as Agentive Benefactive
- God as Innate and Originating Benefactive
- God as Recipient and Reciprocal Benefactive
- God as Content, Experiencer, Goal, and Instrument
- God as Patient, Source, Theme, and Topic
- Appendices
“Danove's virtually exhaustive study of the Gospel of Mark supplies a most basic and thorough level of textual analysis that is both quantitative and hermeneutical. The author operates with the precision of an analytic philosopher as he maintains a keen awareness of his role as a researcher and interpreter within a larger theological enterprise. By focusing on the character, attributes, and activity of God, the work addresses issues that are of central importance to communities of religious believers. The study both affirms much existing scholarship and offers new insights, with conclusions that are relevant not only for biblical scholars but also for systematic theologians who can build on its findings.”
Dennis M. Doyle, University of Dayton, USA
“The author of this work presents a new and very detailed image of God in the Gospel of Mark with the rigorous application of strictly conceived semantic, narrative and rhetorical criteria. This book comes to fill a void in studies about God in Mark's Gospel in a complete, exhaustive way to students and theologians.”
Jesús Peláez, University of Cordoba, Spain
- Title: Theology of the Gospel of Mark: A Semantic, Narrative, and Rhetorical Study of the Characterization of God
- Author: Paul L. Danove
- Series: T&T Clark Biblical Studies
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Print Publication Date: 2019
- Logos Release Date: 2019
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9780567701985, 0567701980
- Resource ID: LLS:OLOGYGOSPELMARK
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-03-02T22:13:30Z