The Ending of Mark and the Ends of God: Essays in Memory of Donald Harrisville Juel

by Juel, Donald H.; Gaventa, Beverly Roberts; Miller, Patrick D.

• ISBN13: 9780664227395
• ISBN10: 0664227392
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-19
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr

Summary

Among his many contributions to New Testament studies, Donald Juel was perhaps best known for his treatment of the ending of Mark's Gospel. He saw the open-endedness of Mark as powerfully unsettling for the reader who desires to tame and predict God's actions. In this series of essays, edited by Beverly Roberts Gaventa and Patrick Miller, theologians begin with Juel's own work and reflect on the "unsettling" in the context of their own work.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
A Disquieting Silence: The Matter of the Ending	1	(14)
Donald Harrisville Juel
Is the Joke on Us? Mark's Irony, Mark's God, and Mark's Ending	15	(18)
Brian K. Blount
The Face Is Familiar---I Just Can't Place It	33	(18)
C. Clifton Black
Unsettling Generosity: Fearful Disciples on This Side of the Text	51	(14)
D. Cameron Murchison
When the Ending Is Not the End	65	(12)
Marianne Meye Thompson
The God Who Will Not Be Taken for Granted: Reflections on Paul's Letter to the Romans	77	(14)
Beverly Roberts Gaventa
Prophetic Surprise in Romans 9--11	91	(16)
Thomas W. Gillespie
Baptism as Change of Lordship	107	(8)
Michael Welker
The End of the Beginning: Genesis 50	115	(12)
Patrick D. Miller
Between Disappointment and Hope at the Boundary: Moses' Death at the End of Deuteronomy	127	(12)
Dennis T. Olson
Doors Thrown Open and Waters Gushing Forth: Mark, Ezekiel, and the Architecture of Hope	139	(16)
Jacqueline Lapsley
Following an Unfollowable God	155	(10)
Ellen T. Charry
The Bible and Theological Education: A Report and Reflections on a Journey	165	(18)
Patrick R. Keifert
List of Contributors	183