Foster R. McCurley Jr. " 'And After Six Days' (Mark 9:2): A Semitic Literary Device," JBL 93 (1974): 67-81. **1/2

According to McCurley the transfiguration account in Mark serves as the climax to the preceding discourse concerning Jesus' identity. The climactic character of the transfiguration is indicated by the phrase "after six days." The significance of the "after six days" modifier is properly understood against the background of the Old Testament and other ancient Near Eastern literature. Common to both the OT and other ANE texts is the literary schema in which an action continues for six days and then reaches its climax "on the seventh day." McCurley does not seize on the full Biblical theological significance of this observation.