Kata Markon

["Stephen C. Carlson" <scarlson AT mindspring.com>]

Jeffrey Gibson wrote:
>With respect to the genre of GMark, List Members might like to have a look 
>at the 
>first chapter of Adela Yarbro Collins' _Beginning of the Gospel: Probing of
>Mark in Context_ entitled "Is Mark's Gospel a Life of Jesus? The Question of
>Genre_. I would also recommend Christoper Bryan's _A Preface to Mark: Notes 
>on
>the Gospel in Its Literary and Cultural Setting_. Bryan also takes up the 
>issue
>of the genre of Mark and picks up and expands upon much of what R. Burridge 
>did
>in his exploration of the Gospels compared with ancient BIOI.

Another reference that would be useful to this discussion is Samuel
Sandmel, "Parallelomania," JBL 81 (1962): 1-13.

Stephen Carlson
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