Paul L. Danove

The End of Mark's Story: a Methodological Study (Biblical Interpretation Series) Paul L. Danove

This volume generates a narrative grammar which unites linguistic, structuralistic, rhetoric and reader-responsive methods, and then uses it to investigate the textual indicators for interpreting the ending of the Gospel of Mark. The first part of the book generates the narrative grammar in response to significant contemporary writings on methods of narrative analysis. The second part provides a detailed analysis of the Gospel's larger narrative units. This analysis isolates narrative units accoding to a consistent set of criteria. It bases the interpretation on a limited number of qualifications of the implied reader, indicating the centrality of the literary and rhetorical traditions of the Hebrew Bible for interpretation, clarifying the model of irony used in the narrative, and accounting for the negative presentation of the disciples on narrative grounds.