Description:
This volume adds to the scholarly interpretive discourses surrounding the Gospel of Mark and argues that the author of Mark attempts to re-construct social identity after the Second Temple's demise.
Review Quotes:
"Wright's makes a compelling and much-needed intervention in Markan studies. Against the prevailing consensus, Wright proposes that we rethink the Gospel's setting and social world: the Markan Jesus does not inhabit a realistic world of the 30s CE, nor does Mark even depict his own social world. Instead, Wright encourages us to think of Mark's world as one caught up in the complex and symbolically-charged relations of the post-War period. Mark emerges as a creative and sophisticated text, challenging its first readers to ponder their new situation and confront their own feelings of alienation with its own novel interpretations of Jesus' life." - Christopher B. Zeichmann, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada