Lexington Books / Fortress Academic
Pages: 178
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-9787-1179-2 • Hardback • October 2023 • $95.00 • (£73.00)
978-1-9787-1180-8 • eBook • September 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Annelies Gisela Moeser is a graduate of Brite Divinity School and an independent researcher.
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Constructing Markan Audiences
Chapter Two: Readings of Mark by Clement of Alexandria and Richard Horsley
Chapter Three: Oracles in Egypt
Chapter Four: Processional Oracles and Reading Mark
Chapter Five: Jesus the Oracle in the House in Capernaum
Chapter Six: Jesus the Oracle from Capernaum to Jerusalem
Chapter Seven: Conclusion
Bibliography
Selected Primary Sources
Selected List of Papyri, Ostraca, Inscriptions, Coins, and Images
Mark’s Gospel. Roman Egypt. Second/third century. Oracular culture. Working with these elements, Annelies Gisela Moeser constructs the possible reception of Mark’s Gospel in second/third century Roman Egypt from the perspective of oracular culture. Sensitive to the dynamics of cultural-imperial society, social status, and gender, Moeser’s creative method and rich reading provide insight into both Mark’s Gospel and a somewhat elusive sphere and era of the early Jesus movement.
— Warren Carter, Phillips Theological Seminary
As one who has worked a great deal on Mark’s Gospel in general and the significance of reconstructing its audience specifically, I welcome Annelies Gisela Moeser’s excellent contribution to the ongoing academic conversation regarding both. Moeser offers a compelling and historically grounded reading of Mark’s Gospel from the social location of non-elite Egyptian Christians in the second and third century. Astutely drawing on Egyptian oracular traditions Moeser presents a Markan Jesus who is accessible to non-elites and whose kingdom challenges the elites of the Roman imperial world order.
— Adam Winn, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor