Mark and Matthew II: Comparative Readings: Reception History, Cultural Hermeneutics, and Theology

by Eve-Marie Becker, Anders Runesson (Editor)

This collection of essays employs a sustained multi-perspectival comparative approach to the reception of Mark and Matthew in diverse interpretive settings from the 1st to the 21st century, with special attention to cultural hermeneutics and theology. The dynamics of interpretation, including the role played by history, methodology, religion, and politics, are taken into consideration, shedding light on distinctive aspects of the human endeavor to understand and use sacred text in context. The present book is the second in a larger project dedicated to comparative analysis of the earliest Gospels, the previous volume focusing on the first century (WUNT 271, 2011). Janice Capel Anderson, Eve-Marie Becker, Adela Yarbro Collins, Detlev Dormeyer, Rene Falkenberg, Michael Knowles, Hans Leander, Petri Luomanen, Martin Meiser, Mogens Muller, Todd Penner, Anders Runesson, Caroline Vander Stichele, Joseph Verheyden, Benedict Viviano, Stephen Westerholm, Peter Widdicombe

420 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2013

About the author

Eve-Marie Becker is chair of New Testament studies at the University of Muenster in Germany. From 2006-18 she was professor of New Testament exegesis at Aarhus University in Denmark. From 2016-17 she was Distinguished Visiting Professor of New Testament at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, and from 2017-18 Research Fellow at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem.