Mark (New Testament Library | NTL)

by M. Eugene Boring

Publisher:

Westminster John Knox

, 2006

Overview

The first New Testament Library volume to focus on a Gospel, this commentary offers a careful reading of the book of Mark. Internationally respected interpreter M. Eugene Boring brings a lifetime of research into the Gospels and Jesus into this lively discussion of the first Gospel.

Key Features

• Theological commentary on Mark
• Opens fresh perspectives on Gospel studies
• Focuses on the text’s illumination of Christian identity

Contents

Top Highlights

“Jesus appoints the Twelve⁴³ for two seemingly contrasting purposes, each introduced by a hina (‘in order that’) clause: ‘that they might be with him’ and ‘that he might send them out.’” (Page 101)

“The author was not an eyewitness; he did not know the historical Jesus” (Page 9)

“Thus the first answer to the disciples’ double question ‘When?’ and ‘What is the sign?’ is that the end is not yet, and the historical troubles through which the Markan Christians are living, terrible as they are, are not the sign that the end has already begun or is immediately at hand, but only the beginning of the ‘labor pains’ that usher in the new age.” (Page 363)

“From Mark’s point of view, to refuse to believe in this good news is bad enough, but to pervert it into its opposite, and consider it the work of Satan rather than the work of God, is the ultimate human evil, the rejection of God’s definitive last word.” (Page 109)

“The homiletical usefulness of this approach is somewhat obviated by the fact that there was no such actual gate, which first appears in a ninth-century commentary on this passage.” (Page 292)

Product Details

• Title: Mark: A Commentary
• Author: M. Eugene Boring
• Series: The New Testament Library
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox
• Print Publication Date: 2006
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Pages: 520
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. N.T. Mark › Commentaries
• ISBNs: 9780664221072, 9780664238995, 0664221076, 0664238998
• Resource ID: LLS:NTL62MK
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-24T16:35:12Z

About M. Eugene Boring

M. Eugene Boring is professor emeritus of New Testament at Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, in Fort Worth, Texas. He is a coauthor of The People’s New Testament, and the author of numerous books of New Testament scholarship, including the best-selling Interpretation commentary on Revelation.