Saint Mark
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Pages: Yellowed
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At the heart of Christian scripture lies the Gospel of Saint Mark — the shortest, most urgent, and arguably the most historically provocative of the four canonical Gospels — and D.E. Nineham's landmark commentary brings its ancient world into sharp, scholarly focus. Part of the prestigious Pelican Gospel Commentaries series, this volume presents a rigorous verse-by-verse analysis of Mark's Gospel, illuminating the text's origins, its theological urgency, and its portrait of Jesus as a figure of immediate, almost breathless divine authority. Nineham, one of the foremost New Testament scholars of the twentieth century, argues that the Gospel of Mark is not merely a biographical account but a theological document shaped by the early Christian community's faith and needs — a position that places this work at the forefront of form-critical biblical scholarship. Written with precision and clarity, the commentary makes sophisticated historical and textual criticism accessible to general readers and students alike, situating Mark's spare, vivid narrative within its first-century Jewish and Greco-Roman context. Whether one approaches this text as a believer, a historian, or a literary scholar, Nineham's authoritative study raises profound questions about who wrote this Gospel, why, and what its enduring message reveals about the origins of Christianity itself.
Author: D.E. Nineham
Format: Paperback
Genre: Religion
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the heart of Christian scripture lies the Gospel of Saint Mark — the shortest, most urgent, and arguably the most historically provocative of the four canonical Gospels — and D.E. Nineham's landmark commentary brings its ancient world into sharp, scholarly focus. Part of the prestigious Pelican Gospel Commentaries series, this volume presents a rigorous verse-by-verse analysis of Mark's Gospel, illuminating the text's origins, its theological urgency, and its portrait of Jesus as a figure of immediate, almost breathless divine authority. Nineham, one of the foremost New Testament scholars of the twentieth century, argues that the Gospel of Mark is not merely a biographical account but a theological document shaped by the early Christian community's faith and needs — a position that places this work at the forefront of form-critical biblical scholarship. Written with precision and clarity, the commentary makes sophisticated historical and textual criticism accessible to general readers and students alike, situating Mark's spare, vivid narrative within its first-century Jewish and Greco-Roman context. Whether one approaches this text as a believer, a historian, or a literary scholar, Nineham's authoritative study raises profound questions about who wrote this Gospel, why, and what its enduring message reveals about the origins of Christianity itself.