A Myth of Innocence: Mark and Christian Origins

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Fortress Press, 1988 - Reference - 432 pages

    Preface

    Introduction: Christian Origins and the Imaginations

    Part I: Christian Beginnings

  1. The Temple and the Land of Palestine
  2. Jesus in Galilee
  3. The Followers of Jesus
  4. The Congregations of the Christ
  5. The Patterns of Social Conflict
  6. Part II: Stories in the Gospel Tradition

  7. The Parables of Jesus
  8. The Pronouncement Stories
  9. The Miracle Stories
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    Part III: Narratives of the Passion

  10. The Entanglements of History and Myth
  11. The Narrative Designs
  12. The Compositional Process
  13. Part IV: The Gospel According to Mark

  14. The Gospel as Myth
  15. The Gospel as Apocalypse
  16. The Gospel as Parable
  17. The Gospel as Paradigm
  18. Conclusion: Imagination and the Myth of Innocence

    Apendices
    I. The Pronouncement Stories in Mark
    II. Linnemann: The Traditions of the Passion
    III. Dormeyer: The Acts of the Martyr
    IV. The Gospel of Mark: An Overview

    Bibliography

    Indices
    I. Subjects
    II. Ancient Authors and Writings
    III. Modern Authors

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About the author (1988)

Burton L. Mack was Professor of New Testament at Claremont School of Theology, and is the author of Rhetoric and the New Testament (Guides to Biblical Scholarship; Fortress Press, 1989); The Lost Gospel: The Book of Q and Christian Origins (1993); Who Wrote the New Testament? The Making of the Christian Myth (1995); and The Christian Myth: Origins, Logic, and Legacy (2001).

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