The Characterisation of Jesus the Davidic Shepherd in Mark's Gospel

A Narrative Analysis through the Lens of Metalepsis
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-16-163752-0
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck

Buch, Englisch, 257 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 401 g

Reihe: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament

Given the literary qualities of the shepherd images in Mark's Gospel (6:34; 14:27), which are intertextual references to the Hebrew Bible and figures of speech for narrative characterisation, Edmund Yiu-ming Leung adopts a narrative-critical approach using Genette's conception of narrative metalepsis. This innovative methodology addresses the inadequacies found in previous studies and fully acknowledges the dual literary nature of the images. More significantly, it illuminates how the original literary background of the shepherd images (Ezekiel 34; Zech 13:7-9) functions to characterise Jesus and other characters along the plotline. Subsequently, the characterisation of Mark's narrator creates rhetorical impacts on Mark's implied readers and persuades them to respond to the radical shepherding work of Jesus and ultimately to acknowledge the nature of being his disciples with an open ending.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leung, Edmund Yiu-ming

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Neues Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie

Über Autor(innen)

Leung, Edmund Yiu-ming
Born 1982; 2016 MDiv at Hong Kong Baptist Theology Seminary; 2016-19 Pastoral staff of adult ministry, biblical training ministry and family ministry in Kowloon City Baptist Church; 2020 MTh at the University of Edinburgh; 2023 PhD (New Testament and Christian Origins) at the University of Edinburgh; New Testament lecturer (New Testament Introduction, Hermeneutics and Exegesis in Practice, New Testament Biblical Theology and Preaching) at Chinese Mission Seminary in Hong Kong.