Semeia 52: How Gospels Began
Overview
Semeia is an experimental journal devoted to the exploration of new and emergent areas and methods of biblical criticism. Studies employing the methods, models, and findings of linguistics, folklore studies, contemporary literary criticism, structuralism, social anthropology, and other such disciplines and approaches, are invited. Although experimental in both form and content, Semeia proposes to publish work that reflects a well defined methodology that is appropriate to the material being interpreted.
- Key perspectives on biblical criticism
- Includes bibliographies and index
Top Highlights
“ discovering the communications strategy already present, but beneath the surface of the text itself.” (Page 44)
“The view has become common that Mark divided his composition into two approximately equal halves.” (Page 45)
“that binds together the gospel about Jesus and the gospel Jesus preached, without confusing or identifying them.” (Page 52)
“John came, who baptized in the wilderness and preached” (Page 48)
“In all four of these, εὐαγγέλιον is certainly an objective genitive referring to the post-Easter church’s message about Jesus, not to the message preached by the pre-Easter Jesus. Thus in 1:1, εὐαγγέλιον refers to the contents and subject matter of Mark’s narrative as a whole, the story of Jesus, the saving act of God in his Son Jesus the Christ, his words, deeds, death, and resurrection, as these are expressed in the following document and as they continue to be preached in Mark’s own time.” (Page 51)
- M. Eugene Boring
- Werner H. Kelber
- John S. Kloppenborg
- Elizabeth Struthers Malbon
- Marvin W. Meyer
- Mikeal C. Parsons
- Bernard Brandon Scott
- Dennis E. Smith
- Robert C. Tannehill
- Joseph B. Tyson
- Title: Semeia 52: How Gospels Began
- Editor: Dennis E. Smith
- Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
- Publication Date: 1991
- Pages: 192
Dennis E. Smith is Professor of New Testament at Phillips Theological Seminary. He is an editor and contributor to the Storyteller’s Companion to the Bible series, as well as co-author of Many Tables: The Eucharist in the New Testament and Liturgy Today.
