Mark. A Reader-Response Commentary (Journal for the Study of the New Testament. Supplement Series 164)

Iersel, Bas M.F. van

ISBN 10: 1850758298 / ISBN 13: 9781850758297

Published by Sheffield, Academic Press 1998, 1998

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556 p. Hardcover with dustjacket, in good condition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mark. A Reader-Response Commentary (Journal for the Study of the New Testament. Supplement Series 164)
• Publisher: Sheffield, Academic Press 1998
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1850758298
• ISBN 13: 9781850758297
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Before his retirement, Bas van Iersel was Ordinary Professor of New Testament and Rector Magnificus of the Catholic University, Nijmegen.

Chris Keith is Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway. He is the author of The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John and the Literacy of Jesus, a winner of the 2010 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, and Jesus' Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee. He is also the co-editor of Jesus among Friends and Enemies: A Historical and Literary Introduction to Jesus in the Gospels, and was recently named a 2012 Society of Biblical Literature Regional Scholar.