vol. 37, Issue #2

Online Journal Article: The Authority Of Jesus In The Gospel Of Mark - James R. Edwards* Jets 37/2 (June 1994) 217-233

https://www.etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/37/37-2/JETS_37-2_217-233_Edwards.pdf

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Complete article may be found here:
https://www.etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/37/37-2/JETS_37-2_217-233_Edwards.pdf

THE AUTHORITY OF JESUS IN THE GOSPEL OF MARK -
JAMES R. EDWARDS*
JETS 37/2 (June 1994) 217-233

Excerpt:
Current scholarship is increasingly characterized by a quest for a nonmessianic Jesus. According to this perspective the significance of Jesus canbe accounted for within the religious, social and political categories of firstcentury Palestine. The options are many and varied: prophet, rabbi, "divineman," social reformer, political revolutionary, mystic, magician, example of
authentic existence, and so on. In some instances such investigations provide helpful insights, heretofore unseen or unappreciated, into the gospels.Nevertheless the program as a whole is largely determined by the modern
west's dismissal of the categories of God, Satan, and the supernatural as meaningful or even necessary explanations for the universe. --from the first page of the article