TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peterson,Dwight
TI  - The Origins of Mark: The Markan Community in Current Debate 
T2  - Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
SN  - 9789004497085
AV  - BS2585.2 
U1  - 226.3 23
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Editorial staff
KW  - Origin of Mark (Book of the Bible) communities of faith
KW  - Social-historical exegesis
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - The book observes and calls into question the scholarly practice of constructing a community behind the Gospel of Mark (and by implication, other Gospels as well) and using that community to control appropriate interpretation of Mark. It presents and critiques particular exemplars of this practice, and briefly suggests other ways to ground the interpretation of Mark. After an introduction, chapters are devoted to the work of Werner Kelber, Howard Clark Kee and Ched Myers. Critical conclusions are then drawn, after which the recent work of Joel Marcus is discussed. A final chapter briefly suggests ways forward. Constructing communities behind Gospels and using those communities as interpretive keys in Gospel interpretation is a widespread scholarly practice. To date, no full length critique of the practice has been published. This book fills that lacuna
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004497085
ER  -