The Narrative Jesus: A Semiotic Reading of Mark's Gospel Tapa dura - 1993

Aarhus: Aarhus University Press. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 8772884231 . From Dustjacket - In The Narrative Jesus. A Semiotic Reading of Mark's Gospel, Ole Davidsen undertakes a radical investigation of the narrative's Jesus, who sees himself as identified by a number of thematic and narrative roles: wonder-worker, proclaimer, and savior. The Markan gospel narrative is defined as a two-fold story whose sequences of events interact and form the characteristic gospel genre. The first sequence concerning the relationship between God and Jesus is fundamental, and recounts the constituent events. The connection between baptism/anointing, crucifixion, and resurrection is analyzed as a unifying structure which establishes the gospel narrative's semiotic unity and reveals the overarching salvation and re-creation project served by these events. Turning against exegetic bigotry and philological pedantry, it is emphasized that the gospel… Leer más

Denmark: Aarhus University Press, 1993. First English Edition. Cloth. Very Fine/Fine. Quarto (9 3/4" x 7" x 1 1/2"), orange cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover, illustrated with several in-text diagrams, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with oil painting by Cranach of The Old & New Testament, x + 404 pages. Weight: 2 lbs. 3.6 oz. Prof. Ole Davidsen, Magister artium (mag.art) in Religious Studies, Aarhus University 1980 - Doctor Theologiae (dr.theol), Aarhus University 1993 - Professor at Aarhus University until retirement in 2015. <br /> <br /> The good professor here examines the Gospel of Mark using a remarkable and very uncommon semio-literary analysis. <br /> <br /> FINE COPY in all respects: tight, bright, clean copy with spotless pages and diagrams.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.