New Collegeville Bible Commentary
The Gospel According to Mark
Volume 2
The absence of stories of Jesus' birth and infancy, a minimum of Jesus' parables and a resurrection scene without sight or sound of the risen Jesus have tempted readers to shortchange Mark's Gospel. Thanks to the insightful analysis and inspiring reflections of Marie Noonan Sabin, anyone studying this premier Gospel with her guidance will recognize the genius of the original author.
Sabin asserts that Mark's Gospel is not an eyewitness account or a work of biography or history. She writes, What Mark gives us is far richer. He interprets Jesus in the light of the Hebrew Bible, showing Jesus to be not only a teacher of Wisdom but Wisdom itself, calling his followers to an unconventional wisdom, a way of living (and a way of dying) that he himself exemplifies."
The cover of this commentary from The Saint John's Bible highlights Sabin's thesis that the transfiguration of Jesus is pivotal to the Gospel: "The scene [9:2-8]overshadows both parts of the Gospel, emphasizing God's creative, transforming, transfiguring power to restore life."
Sabin gives special attention to Mark's key words and phrases (e.g., "release," "rise up" or "be raised," "straightway," and "ecstasy") and his pattern of twos and threes. Especially helpful are the summaries at the end of each chapter. Here is a commentary that will restore Mark's prime place among the other two Synoptic Gospels.
Marie Noonan Sabin, Ph.D., has taught the Gospel of Mark at Bangor Theological Seminary; an earlier book on Mark, Reopening the Word, was published by Oxford University Press in 2002.
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This short sample is typical of Sabin's ability to bring readers along, leading us to a fuller understanding and appreciation of familiar bible stories and connecting them to one another and to the Old Testament. Writing Works "Marie Noonan Sabin's description of the Markan narrative is likewise applicable to her fine commentary: "Rich in Scripture, theological in purpose, and brilliant in design, Mark's Gospel (and Sabin's commentary) invites its readers to become followers of Jesus' transfiguring wisdom.""Gregg S. Morrison Simpson University Redding, California
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Höhe: 229 mm
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Dicke: 10 mm
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978-0-8146-2861-4 (9780814628614)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Marie Noonan Sabin holds a PhD in English from Yale and an MA from Union Theological Seminary. She has taught English at Vassar, Barnard, and Douglass, and the Gospel of Mark at Bangor Theological Seminary. She is the author of Evolving Humanity and Biblical Wisdom: Reading Scripture through the Lens of Teilhard de Chardin and The Gospel According to Mark in the New Collegeville Bible Commentary series published by Liturgical Press. She is also the author of Reopening the Word: Reading Mark as Theology in the Context of Early Judaism (Oxford University Press).
CONTENTS
Abbreviations 4
Introduction 5
TEXT AND COMMENTARY
Beginning (1:1-45) 17
Jesus' Acts of Restoration and Re-creation (2:1-28) 24
Jesus' Challenge of Conventional Wisdom (3:1-35) 33
Jesus as Wisdom Teacher (4:1-41) 40
The Transforming Effect of Jesus/Wisdom (5:1-43) 49
The Recognition of Jesus/Wisdom (6:1-56) 54
Jesus' Redefining of the "Unclean" (7:1-37) 63
Second Sight-A Sharper Focus (8:1-38) 69
Transfiguration-New Perceptions (9:1-50) 77
Return to the Beginning (10:1-52) 87
Jesus and the Temple Authorities-New Understandings of Power (11:1-37) 96
Jesus as Wisdom in the Temple (12:1-44) 104
Jesus as Prophet in the Temple (13:1-37) 114
The Passion Narrative, Part I: Preparations for Death and Life (14:1-52) 122
The Passion Narrative, Part II: The Identity of Jesus on Trial (14:53-15:15) 134
The Passion Narrative, Part III: The Death of Jesus (15:6-47) 140
A New Beginning: The Resurrection of Jesus and the Revelation of Wisdom (16:1-8) 151
Summary of the Design of Mark's Gospel 157
Other Endings by Other Authors 161
Questions for Further Reflection 166
Index of Citations from the Catechism of the Catholic Church 169
Maps 171