The Problem of Markan Genre: The Gospel of Mark and the Jewish Novel (Academia Biblica)

The Problem of Markan Genre: The Gospel of Mark and the Jewish Novel......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 12
1. The Gospel of Mark and the Genre of the Gospels......Page 14
A Brief History of the Problem of Gospel Genre......Page 15
Analogies with Greco-Roman Biography......Page 17
Form Critical Reactions to the Comparison with Greco-Roman Biography......Page 18
The Recent Revival of Votaw\'s Thesis......Page 22
Lingering Doubts about Biography and the Genre of Mark......Page 28
Difficulties in the Investigation of Gospel Genre......Page 35
Are the Gospels a Unified Group?......Page 37
The Nature of Genre......Page 38
The Scope of Comparison......Page 41
Conclusion......Page 43
2. Bakhtin\'s Theory of Genre......Page 46
Fundamental Principles of Bakhtin\'s Poetics......Page 49
Unfinalizability and Dialogue......Page 51
Language and Heteroglossia......Page 62
Speech Genres, Literary Genres, and Chronotope......Page 67
Conclusion......Page 77
3. Greco-Roman Novelistic Literature in the Hellenistic Period......Page 82
Epic and Novel......Page 84
Polyglossia and Novelization......Page 86
Novelization in the Hellenistic Period......Page 91
Greco-Roman Biography and its Chronotope......Page 93
Ancient Romance and Its Chronotope......Page 101
Menippean Satire and Its Chronotope......Page 121
Conclusion......Page 133
The Gospel of Mark and Greco-Roman Novelistic Literature......Page 134
Mark and Biography......Page 135
Mark and Romance......Page 139
Mark and Menippea......Page 144
Summary......Page 155
Jewish Novelistic Literature......Page 157
Jewish Novelistic Literature in the Hellenistic Period......Page 158
The Genre of Mark and the Jewish Novel......Page 166
Conclusion......Page 172
5. Conclusion......Page 174
Bibliography......Page 178
Index of Modern Authors......Page 220
Index of Texts Cited......Page 230