This Guides are tailor-made for group study leaders and members and are also ideal for personal devotional use. They provide a concise summary and lively application of each passage, with pointed q…
This engaging study examines the considerable attention Mark's Gospel gives to Jesus confrontation with temptation, not only during his time in the wilderness but throughout the whole course of his…
This book examines the whole of Mark's gospel in order to ascertian if there is, indeed, an explanation for Mark's use of apparently contradictory literary devices. The author learned study of this…
What if the story of Jesus was meant not just to be told but retold, molded, and shaped into something new, something present by the Evangelist to face each new crisis? The Evangelists were not rec…
Around the year 70, in the firat century - so9me four decades after the historical life of Jesus - an early Christian put the story of Jesus into writing for the first time. During those forty-or-s…
Reading Mark draws attention to the literary and theological achievements of the shorter gospel. Mark is read as an interpretation of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus in light of the theol…
The goslpel of Mark was neglected by early Christian tradition, raryly - if ever - used in preaching. The gospel of Matthew surpassed in both length and detail. Mark was seen as something of a poor…
Jesus proved to be a Messiah shockingly contrary to Jewish expectations. The evangelist Mark eralized that God must have had a secret messianic purpose for Jesus that differed from the jewish hopes…