Marco e il genere letterario degli annunci (o Vangeli)

The article confirms the common opinion that Mark was the first to write down a “Story of Jesus” and to call it eujagge÷lion, or “announcement”. In this way, he gave origin to a specific genre of text for the Christian propaganda concerning the origins of Christianity. As for the origin of that name, I suppose that, while the word is Greek, the concept comes from Isaiah 40-66 (LXX). The common Greek language prefers the form eujagge÷lion to eujaggeli÷zomai, especially the use of the name eujagge÷lion in the absolute, without any specification as we find it in Mark (8,35 and 10,29; 13,10; 14,9) and Paul (cf. Rm 1,16).