Discipleship and Family Ties in Mark and Matthew
Catholic Biblical Quarterly, The, July, 1996 by Balch, David L
STEPHEN C. BARTON, Discipleship and Family Ties in Mark and Matthew (SNTSMS 80; Cambridge/New York/Oakleigh: Cambridge University Press, 1994). Pp. xiv 261. $59.95.
Barton interprets texts in Mark and Matthew that concern discipleship or family ties using a multidisciplinary approach, in each instance doing form, redaction, literary and sociological criticism. He succeeds wonderfully in showing that these methods are not mutually exclusive but complement each other in elucidating meaning. B.'s second chapter surveys the relativizing of family ties in contemporary cultural worlds, in Philo and Josephus, at Qumran, and among Cynics and Stoics. Compare the Cynic and Stoic texts in Will Deming, Paul on Marriage and Celibacy: The Hellenistic Background of I Corinthians 7 (SNTSMS...
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