The Two Gospels of Mark
Oder, Danila
The Gospel of Mark is not the memoirs of Peter, recorded by his secretary. But why did someone write this foundational text of early Christianity? In a new book, The Two Gospels of Mark: Performance and Text, Danila Oder argues, for the first time, that the Gospel of Mark was initially an entertaining, secular play performed in Rome in 90-95 CE. The playwright known to history as "Mark" preserved the experience of performance in a narrative, l...