Mark

by Iersel, Bastiaan Martinus Franciscus Van; Bisscheroux, W. H.; Van Iersel, Bas M. F.

• ISBN13: 9781850758297
• ISBN10: 1850758298
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-07-01
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Pr

Summary

The distinguished Dutch New Testament scholar Bas van Iersel offers us an incisive and comprehensive episode-by-episode commentary on the Gospel of Mark. His special focus is on the contribution of each episode to the overall meaning of the gospel, at both the level of the story and the level of the discourse. As a reader-response commentator, his concern is everywhere with the effect of Mark's story on its readers, engaging both with the situation of the original audience of Mark-Christians of Gentile origin in Rome shortly after the Neronian persecutions-and with that of the present-day reader. Even the introductions are reader-related: on the role of the reader, the original audience and the reader of today, the overall concentric structure of Mark, and the relation of Mark to the Old Testament.

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(2)
Abbreviations	9	(5)
Introduction
Reading and Readers	14	(16)
Author and Readers, Place and Time	30	(28)
Mark and the Old Testament	58	(10)
A Composition in Lines and Circles	68	(20)
Commentary Prologue: In the Wilderness
Voices in the Wilderness (1.1-15)	88	(22)
PART I: ACTION IN GALILEE
The Structure of Part I	110	(17)
A Wandering Jew (1.16--4.1)	127	(49)
Stories and Images (4.2-34)	176	(17)
Crossing Boundaries (4.35--8.21)	193	(77)
PART II: THE WAY
The Structure of Part II	270	(8)
Going his Own Way (8.22--10.52)	278	(68)
PART III: PASSION IN JERUSALEM
The Structure of Part III	346	(5)
Winning in the Temple Court (11.1--12.44)	351	(36)
The End of the Temple and the World (13.1-37)	387	(26)
Losing his Life (14.1--15.39)	413	(69)
EPILOGUE: AT THE TOMB
Way without End (15.40--16.8)	482	(25)
An Added Epilogue	507	(2)
Bibliography	509	(18)
Index of References	527	(26)
Index of Authors	553