Mark's Argumentative Jesus: How Jesus Debated His Opponents Using Greek Forms Of Argumentation

The author claims that the gospel of Mark is a speech or sermon. To prove this he shows how Mark used many of the elements of Aristotle’s rhetoric. Literary critics noticed these rhetorical features in Mark, but remained with a literary critical model of that gospel instead of a rhetorical view that the evidence called for. They continued to translate the first word of Mark, arché, as "beginning" to provide Mark's story of Jesus with a chronological beginning. The author translates Mark's first word as "guiding principle" to provide Mark's persuasive speech or sermon with a logical starting point.

• | Author: Caurie Beaver
• | Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• | Publication Date: May 22, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 162 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Religion
• | ISBN-10: 1532646437
• | ISBN-13: 9781532646430