Mark
A Commentary
1st Edition
Published on 17. November 2006
520 pages
978-1-61164-572-9 (ISBN)
Description
The first New Testament Library volume to focus on a Gospel, this commentary offers a careful reading of the book of Mark. Internationally respected interpreter M. Eugene Boring brings a lifetime of research into the Gospels and Jesus into this lively discussion of the first Gospel.
The New Testament Library offers authoritative commentary on every book and major aspect of the New Testament, as well as classic volumes of scholarship. The commentaries in this series provide fresh translations based on the best available ancient manuscripts, offer critical portrayals of the historical world in which the books were created, pay careful attention to their literary design, and present a theologically perceptive exposition of the text.
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M. Eugene Boring is Professor Emeritus of New Testament at Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, in Fort Worth, Texas. He is a coauthor of The People's New Testament, and the author of numerous books of New Testament Scholarship, including the best-selling Interpretation commentary on Revelation.
Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INTRODUCTION
- COMMENTARY
- 1:1-15 Title and Prologue 1:1 The Author's Title1
- 1:2-15 The Markan Prologue
- 1:16-3:35 Authority, Rejection, and the New Community
- 4:1-34 Central Discourse of Part 1: Parables and Mystery of the Kingdom of God
- 4:35-8:21 Crossing Borders
- From Blindness to Sight
- Temple, Confrontation, and Death
- 11:1-13:4 The Lord Comes to His Temple
- 13:5-37 Central Discourse of Part 2: Historical Troubles and the Coming of the Son of Man
- 14:1-15:47 Trial and Death
- 16:1-8 EPILOGUE: RESURRECTION AND MISSION: BACK TO GALILEE
- ALTERNATIVE ENDINGS
- INDEX OF ANCIENT SOURCES
- INDEX OF SUBJECTS
