| The Gospel According to Mark: Volume 2 Volume 2 Contributor(s): Sabin, Marie Noonan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814628613 ISBN-13: 9780814628614 Publisher: Liturgical Press OUR PRICE: $8.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2006 Annotation: Comprehensive and understandable, the New Collegeville Bible Commentary series brings the timeless messages and relevance of the New Testament to today's readers. With recent scholarship, this series provides vital background and addresses important questions such as authorship and cultural context. The New Collegeville Bible Commentary includes New American Bible translation and will appeal to preachers, teachers, Bible study groups, and Bible readers. This commentary on the Gospel According to Mark makes accessible to the reader the rich traditions of the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism that form the context and texture of the Christian Gospel. It provides the general historical setting of the Temple, Jerusalem, and the Romans in the first century; calls attention to Mark's use of language and literay structure; and shows how Mark interweaves Jewish Scripture and tradition to interpret the meaning of Jesus. In particular, Marie F. Sabin highlights the influence of the Wisdom writings and how Mark draws on them to present Jesus as God's Wisdom made flesh, and invites readers to reflect on the implications of this Gospel for our own time. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Biblical Commentary - New Testament - General - Religion | Biblical Studies - New Testament - Jesus, The Gospels & Acts |
| Dewey: 226.307 |
| LCCN: 2005032006 |
| Series: New Collegeville Bible Commentary: New Testament |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6.1" W x 9" (0.53 lbs) 172 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Theometrics - Catholic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sabin, Marie Noonan: - 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 Reopening the Word: Reading Mark as Theology in the Context of Early Judaism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002) and The Gospel According to Mark in the New Collegeville Commentary Series (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2006). |