Evangelium als literarische Gattung und als theologischer Begriff. Tendenzen und Aufgaben der Evangelienforschung im 20. Jahrhundert, mit einer Untersuchung des Markusevangeliums in seinem Verhältnis zur antiken Biographie

Dormeyer, Detlev; Frankemölle, Hubert; Haase, Wolfgang

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“…For major studies on the Gospels as sui generis , see, e.g., Schmidt (1923: 2:50–135) and Rudolf Bultmann (1994: 371–74). More recently, Frankemölle concludes his extensive study on Mark’s genre with the claim that ‘Diese Einwirkung hat Markus in schöpferischer Eigeninitiative aufgenommen und in der Verbindung mit den vorgegebenen synoptischen Stoffen ein kerygmatisches Erzählwerk sui generis geschaffen’ (Dormeyer and Frankemölle 1984: 1693). On the reaction against this idea of gospels as sui generis over the past few decades, see Richard Burridge (2018: 211 n. 73), who lists as supporting such a view Kee (1977: 139), Schweizer (1970: 23), Browning (1972: 17–18), and Guelich (1991: 202).…”

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The Genre of Mark’s Gospel Is ‘Gospel’: Reconsidering Literary Innovation in the Markan Incipit

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2023

Journal for the Study of the New Testament

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Classifying Gospels as ancient Graeco-Roman biographies addresses an array of scholarly questions about how these texts relate to their wider literary culture. That classification also requires considerable qualification since Gospels—particularly the Gospel of Mark—at times diverge from certain generic conventions. This study rearticulates the out-of-fashion claim that ‘Mark’ created a new literary genre, even if penned in a biographical structure. When this pioneer evangelist breaks the compositional silence, he reveals immediately that he is writing ‘gospel’. As a recognizable communication type, ‘gospel’ was an oral proclamation of deliverance and rescue that this writer innovatively narrativizes and textualizes. If this work is a biography, it is so only secondarily, because primarily, Mark is a ‘gospel’ announcing an interruptive divine deliverance that is narratable and so scripturally evocative that it is worthy of textual rendering. In opening the scroll to Mark, εὐθύς there is εὐαγγέλιον (immediately, there is gospel), a designation beckoning the audience to receive what follows as if the skies have been split open and the soundscape burst apart with a new story-shaped word that disrupts reality as well as literary conventions. What is the genre of this early Christian text? It is just what Mark tells us: ‘gospel’.

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The Genre of Mark’s Gospel Is ‘Gospel’: Reconsidering Literary Innovation in the Markan Incipit

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Evangelium als literarische Gattung und als theologischer Begriff. Tendenzen und Aufgaben der Evangelienforschung im 20. Jahrhundert, mit einer Untersuchung des Markusevangeliums in seinem Verhältnis zur antiken Biographie

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