The ‘Gospel’ between Emperor and Temple in the Gospel of Mark

A Story of Epoch-Making Proximity to the Divine through Victory and Cult

by Morten Horning Jensen

Book cover: The ‘Gospel’ between Emperor and Temple in the Gospel of Mark

Extent: 555 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Biblical Studies

Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament

Series volume number: 505

Language: English

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(June 2023)

ISBN: 9783161618581

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The “gospel” is a keyword of the Gospel of Mark. But what does it mean to Mark? Morten Horning Jensen investigates the notion of Mark’s ‘gospel’ afresh, and concludes that Mark uses it to communicate the ‘epoch-making’ reversal of fortunes he sees as the victorious outcome of Jesus’s life, death, and resurrection.

The Gospel of Mark pointedly opens with the statement, “the beginning of the gospel”. This raises the question: What does ‘the gospel’ (τὸ εὐαγγέλιον) mean to Mark? Traditionally, an explanation has been found in the so-called ‘religious use’ of the notion of the ‘messenger on the mountain’ in Isa 40:9 and 52:7, paving the way for an understanding of Jesus’s death as a sin sacrifice connected to Isa 53. Under the influence of recent postcolonial and/or anti-imperial reading strategies, however, Mark’s gospel notion has rather been understood as tailored to counter a Roman dressing of the emperor as ‘gospels’ to the world. Morten Horning Jensen re-investigates the entire concept of ‘gospel’ and concludes that Mark uses the concept to communicate the ‘epoch-making victory’ he finds to be the product of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.

By (author) Morten Horning Jensen

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