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The African Memory of Mark: Reassessing Early Church Tradition

The African Memory of Mark: Reassessing Early Church Tradition

Oden, Thomas C.

Paperback

Series: Early African Christianity

Biographies GeneralBible StudiesGeneral Christianity

Publisher Price: $36.99

ISBN10: 083083933X
ISBN13: 9780830839339
Publisher: IVP Academic
Published: Jul 11 2011
Pages: 279
Weight: 0.95
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

We often regard the author of the Gospel of Mark as an obscure figure about whom we know little. Many would be surprised to learn how much fuller a picture of Mark exists within widespread African tradition, tradition that holds that Mark himselfwas from North Africa, that he founded the church in Alexandria, that he was an eyewitness to the Last Supper and Pentecost, that he was related not only to Barnabas but to Peter as well and accompanied him on many of his travels.In this provocativereassessment of early church tradition, Thomas C. Oden begins with the palette of New Testament evidence and adds to it the range of colors from traditional African sources, including synaxaries (compilations of short biographies of saints to be readon feast days), archaeological sites, non-Western historical documents and ancient churches.The result is a fresh and illuminating portrait of Mark, one that is deeply rooted in African memory and seldom viewed appreciatively in the West.

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