Spider-Man: Venom Returns by David Michelinie

Spider-Man: Venom Returns by David Michelinie

What difference does it make to identify Mark's gospel as an ancient biography?

Reading the gospels as ancient biographies makes a profound difference to the way that we interpret them. Biography immortalizes the memory of the subject, creating a literary monument to the person's life and teaching. Yet it is also a bid to legitimize a specific view of that figure and to position an author and his audience as appropriate gatekeepers of that memory. Biography was well suited to the articulation of shared values and commitments, the formation of group identity, and the binding together of a past story, present concerns, and future hopes.

Helen Bond argues that Mark's author used the genre of biography to extend the gospel from an earlier narrow focus on the death and resurrection of Jesus so that it included the way of life of its founding figure. Situating Jesus at the heart of a biography was a bold step in outlining a radical form of Christian discipleship patterned on the life - and death - of Jesus.

David Michelinie is an American comic book writer who gained prominence in the late 1970s with a run on Iron Man that includes the Demon in a Bottle storyline. His other work includes The Avengers, Web of Spider-Man and Amazing Spider-Man (including the wedding of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson). Returning to DC Comics for the first time since his early 1970s work on war and mystery titles, Micheline wrote the adventures of Superman in ACTION COMICS, as well as writing JUSTICE LEAGUE TASK FORCE.

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ISBN 13	9780871359667
ISBN 10	0871359669
Title	Spider-Man: Venom Returns
Author	David Michelinie
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Year published	1993-04-01
Number of pages	1
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