Abingdon New Testament Commentaries: Mark

by C. Clifton Black

Mark's genius lies, not in telling a story about Jesus, but in creating conditions under which the reader may experience the peculiar quality of God's good news. The Evangelist hurries one along breathlessly, "immediately," making sure that the reader lurches with the characters into one pothole after another. "What is this new teaching" that consorts with the flagrantly sinful, turning the pious homicidal, intimates into strangers, and mustard seeds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0687058414
• ISBN13: 9780687058419
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Abingdon Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"