Reading Mark Caroline Chapman Drawing from exciting new sources

Drawing from exciting new sources that include three Illinois dictionaries from the eighteenth century

historians have disparaged the men who joined the Union army in the later days of the Civil War--when higher bounty payments and the conditional draft were in effect--as unpatriotic mercenaries who made poor soldiers and contributed little to the Union victory

Ethics for Apocalyptic Times is about the role literature can play in helping readers cope with our present-day crises

The text also contains a range of useful tasks to support student engagement and recognition of possible application

Reading Mark Caroline Chapman Drawing from exciting new sourcesA renowned scholar on the Gospel of Mark, Rhoads utilizes a variety of methods to plumb the depths of this earliest story of Jesus. From new forms of literary criticism, social scientific explorations, and reader response criticism, Rhoads brings fresh insights to Gospel studies.