Mark : Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist

by Moloney, Francis J.

• ISBN13: 9781565635135
• ISBN10: 1565635132
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: Hendrickson Pub

Summary

Moloney offers the fruits of top-level biblical scholarship in a broadly accessible format. Students and professors alike will appreciate and profit from his fresh and lucid presentation of the message of one of the Christian faith's earliest and most enigmatic proponents and the inventor of its most revered literary genre.

Author Biography

Francis J. Moloney holds the Katharine Drexel Chair of Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Abbreviations	xiii
Part 1: Mark
Chapter 1: The Author of Mark in History	3	(16)
Which Mark?	3	(2)
Why Mark?	5	(4)
Where and When?	9	(4)
Conclusion	13	(6)
Chapter 2: History and Theology	19	(28)
The Historian	19	(9)
The Theologian	28	(9)
Conclusion	37	(10)
Part 2: Mark the Storyteller
Chapter 3: Mark's Story	47	(12)
The Plot of the Gospel of Mark	48	(7)
Conclusion	55	(4)
Chapter 4: Mark 1:1-8:30: Who Is Jesus?	59	(23)
The Beginning (1:1-13)	59	(4)
Jesus and the Jews (1:14-3:6)	63	(6)
Jesus and His New Family (3:7-6:6a)	69	(4)
Jesus and the Disciples (6:6b-8:30)	73	(4)
Conclusion	77	(5)
Chapter 5: Mark 8:31-16:8: Son of Man, Christ, and Son of God	82	(43)
Jesus and the Disciples on the Way to Jerusalem (8:31-10:52)	83	(4)
Endings in Jerusalem (11:1-13:37)	87	(9)
The Passion of Jesus (14:1-15:47)	96	(15)
The Epilogue (16:1-8)	111	(1)
Conclusion	112	(13)
Part 3: Mark the Interpreter
Chapter 6: Mark the Interpreter of Jesus of Nazareth	125	(34)
Jesus and the Kingdom of God	126	(4)
Jesus as the Christ	130	(6)
Jesus as the Son of God	136	(7)
Jesus as the Son of Man	143	(8)
Conclusion	151	(8)
Chapter 7: Mark the Interpreter of the Christian Community	159	(26)
The Disciples	160	(7)
The Christian Community at the Table of the Lord	167	(9)
Conclusion	176	(9)
Part 4: Mark the Evangelist
Chapter 8: The Good News of the Gospel of Mark	185	(16)
Anonymity	186	(5)
The Good News of Human Failure	191	(5)
Conclusion	196	(5)
Bibliography	201	(16)
Commentaries on the Gospel of Mark	201	(2)
Other Studies	203	(14)
Index of Modern Authors	217	(3)
Index of Ancient Sources	220