Name: The Gospel of Mark: Interpreting Biblical Texts Series
Price: 22.49 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780687008490

If you're looking for non-technical, easy-to read commentaries that effectively open up the meaning of Scripture, you'll appreciate the Interpreting Biblical Texts series. Written for laypeople, as well as scholars, each volume clearly presents the main points of the ancient texts for modern readers. In the newest edition, The Gospel of Mark, Donald Juel explores the remarkable story of what many believe to be the first gospel that was written. 224 pages, softcover, Abingdon.

Title: The Gospel of Mark: Interpreting Biblical Texts Series
By: Donald Juel
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 224
Vendor: Abingdon Press
Publication Date: 1999

Dimensions: 9 X 6 X .5 (inches)
Weight: 12 ounces
ISBN: 0687008492
ISBN-13: 9780687008490
Series: Interpreting Biblical Texts
Stock No: WW7008492

This volume is written for anyone who--for whatever reason--is drawn to the New Testament. It is also for those who are not so drawn, for it is written out of the conviction that good readers need to be formed. Anyone can read the Bible; no particular level of education is required, but readers need to learn what to look for in stories that may seem distant and strange. The long tradition of reading the Scriptures in the church is not the enemy in such an enterprise, but audiences change, and the Bible must be heard and wrestled with in each new situation. This volume focuses on the Gospel according to Mark, probably the first of the four Gospels to be written. It has received the least attention of the four in the history of the church. The explosion of Markan scholarship in the last decades tells a fascinating story that is not the focus of this study but informs it. The result of intense engagement with Mark within and outside the academic community has not achieved a meeting of the minds. Mark’s Gospel does not easily yield its secrets. It is the case, however, that conversing about Mark has been enormously interesting and productive for the church as well as the academy. This volume is written to open readers to its remarkable story. Where engagement will finally lead remains as unpredictable and as promising as the Gospel itself.

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