Lexington Books / Fortress Academic
Pages: 184
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-9787-0111-3 • Hardback • March 2018 • $117.00 • (£90.00)
978-1-9787-0112-0 • eBook • March 2018 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
Myrick C. Shinall Jr. is assistant professor of surgery and medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society.
- Preliminary Objections
The Kentucky Fried RatObjection 1: The Bible is not FolkloreObjection 2: There is no QObjection 3: There is no New Testament ChristologyConclusion- The Purposes of Narrating Miracle Stories
Miracles and Identity FormationMiracles in the Ancient MediterraneanConclusion- The Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Satan
The Kingdom of God: BackgroundThe Kingdom of God: QThe Kingdom of God: MarkSatan and His KingdomConclusion- The Beelzebul Controversy
Controversy and IdentityThe Beelzebul Controversy in MarkThe Beelzebul Controversy in the Double TraditionConclusion5. The Commissioning of the DisciplesCharisma and SuccessionThe Commissioning in MarkThe Commissioning in the Double TraditionConclusion6. The Testing of JesusTesting and InitiationThe Testing of Jesus in the Double TraditionThe Testing of Jesus in MarkConclusion7.ConclusionMark and QChristology and Social IdentityMiracles and the Kingdom of God
Shinall's thesis is provocative and presented in a lively manner.
— The Bible Today
Smartly written and full of instructive comparative materials, Miracles and the Kingdom of God is a salutary warning against flattening or harmonizing parallel synoptic texts. The volume is an important contribution to the on-going debates about early Christology, and scholars will henceforth have to reckon with Shinall’s novel suggestions and provocative conclusions.
— Dale C. Allison Jr., Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament, Princeton Theological Seminary
This study of the miracles and the kingdom in Mark and Q/double tradition, with also a valuable eye to social identity and sociological issues, finds significant differences between the two strands. Well-argued and thought-provoking, this is an important contribution to gospel studies and will be of interest to all students of Mark and Q.
— Christopher Tuckett, University of Oxford
This is a very fine and rich comparison of the miracles stories that overlap the Gospel of Mark and the synoptic Sayings Gospel Q. Deep knowledge of the use of miracle stories in Greco-Roman antiquity, a studied sensitivity to the relationship between miracles stories and early Christian intellectual and social formation, and skilled exegesis of the relevant texts, allow the author to make a convincing argument that Mark and Q represent very different conceptions of Jesus and social visions for his groups of followers.
— Willi Braun, University of Alberta