TY - JOUR
AU - Newman, Andrew J
AB - REVIEWS out prior consideration of the structure and most prominent themes of the Markan narrative as a whole. Although a strong case probably can be made for dating Mark’s Gospel earlier than the 70s, it surely cannot be made on the basis of only four pericopes and usage of a single prominent phrase (e.g. ‘son of man’). Fortu- nately, though, and precisely because that stance occupies so little of the book’s ar- gumentative space (it comes like a bolt out of the blue on the work’s last two pages), it does not significantly detract from the value of Casey’s more serious and rigorous arguments concerning the historical Jesus. UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER TODD E. KLUTZ doi:10.1093/jss/fgi023 ROBERT GLEAVE, Inevitable Doubt: Two Theories of Shi’i Jurisprudence (Studies in Islamic Law and Society 12). Brill, Leiden 2000. Pp. viii + 263. Price: /80.00/ $94.00. ISBN: 90-04-11595-1. For many years the field of Shi’i studies has been divided between those who ad- dressed the developments in Twelver doctrine and practice over the nearly seven cen- turies commencing with the onset of the Imam's disappearance in 873–4, when the faith was a minority one within a Sunni dominated political structure and during which Arabic 
TI - Review: Inevitable Doubt: Two Theories of Shi'ī Jurisprudence
JF - Journal of Semitic Studies
DO - 10.1093/jss/fgi024
DA - 2005-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/review-inevitable-doubt-two-theories-of-shi-i-jurisprudence-0YnssN8b18
SP - 225
EP - 227
VL - 50
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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