Crisis and Continuity: Time in the Gospel of Mark (Library of New Testament Studies)

Here is a compact study of how Mark's Gospel meditates on time. It examines how the Gospel's contemporary setting in ordinary time defines its genre, and how Mark uses the Hebrew scriptures to remember and recall past teachings, prophecies and histories. The suspended time narratives, Mark's 'intercalations', on the other hand, interrupt the narrative of the critical time present. Finally, by bringing the eternal horizon into the events of the present, Mark's 'mythic time' reveals the crisis events as a momentary interruption of ordinary time. Similarly, during the 'ritual time', the Gospel narrative breaks with its own historical setting in order to unravel the dead-endedness of the crisis story by symbolically taking it outside time.Brenda Deen Schildgen is the author of 'Crisis and Continuity: Time in the Gospel of Mark (Library of New Testament Studies)', published 1998 under ISBN 9781850758518 and ISBN 1850758514.