Jesus' Defeat of Death: Persuading Mark's Early Readers

By Peter G. Bolt

Book Overview

Peter Bolt explores the impact of Mark's Gospel on early readers in the first-century Graeco-Roman world. Focusing upon the thirteen characters in Mark who come to Jesus for healing or exorcism, Bolt analyzes their crucial role in the communication of the Gospel. Enlisting a variety of ancient literary and non-literary sources, this book recreates the first-century world of illness, magic and Roman imperialism. This new approach to Mark combines reader-response criticism with social history.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521830362
• ISBN13: 9780521830362
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.7"