The Gospel of Mark

The Gospel of Mark

Author: Charles A. Bobertz

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2016-10-18

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1493405713

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How Baptism and the Eucharist Shaped Early Christian Understandings of Jesus Long before the Gospel writers put pen to papyrus, the earliest Christians participated in the powerful rituals of baptism and the Lord's Supper, which fundamentally shaped their understanding of God, Christ, and the world in which they lived. In this volume, a respected biblical scholar and teacher explores how cultural anthropology and ritual studies elucidate ancient texts. Charles Bobertz offers a liturgical reading of the Gospel of Mark, arguing that the Gospel is a narrative interpretation of early Christian ritual. This fresh, responsible, and creative proposal will benefit scholars, professors, and students. Its ecclesial and pastoral ramifications will also be of interest to church leaders and pastors.


Reading Mark

Reading Mark

Author: David M. Rhoads

Publisher: Fortress Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781451406191

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One of the leading scholars on the Gospel of Mark utilizes a variety of methods to plumb the depths of this earliest story of Jesus. From new forms of literary criticism, social-scientific explorations, and reader-response criticism, Rhoads brings fresh insights to gospel studies.


Reading Mark

Reading Mark

Author: Sharyn Echols Dowd

Publisher: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781573122887

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Dowd examines the Gospel of Mark from literary and theological perspectives, suggesting what the text may have meant to its first-century audience of Gentile and Jewish Christians. Mark is a Greco-Roman biography of Jesus written in an apocalyptic mode. Its theology is based on the message of the prophet Isaiah- the proclamation of release from bondage and a march toward freedom along the "way of the Lord."


The Gospel of Mark Made Easy

The Gospel of Mark Made Easy

Author: Patrick J. Flanagan

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780809137282

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This is a fascinating introductory book for studying the Gospels. It includes a simple presentation of contemporary scriptural interpretation of Mark's Gospel, resource notes, and compelling new insights for clergy, biblical readers, and study groups.


Reading Mark's Gospel as a Text from Collective Memory

Reading Mark's Gospel as a Text from Collective Memory

Author: Sandra Huebenthal

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Published: 2020-05-28

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 1467458465

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How did the Gospel of Mark come to exist? And how was the memory of Jesus shaped by the experiences of the earliest Christians? For centuries, biblical scholars examined texts as history, literature, theology, or even as story. Curiously absent, however, has been attention to processes of collective memory in the creation of biblical texts. Drawing on modern explorations of social memory, Sandra Huebenthal presents a model for reading biblical texts as collective memories. She demonstrates that the Gospel of Mark is a text evolving from collective narrative memory based on recollections of Jesus’s life and teachings. Huebenthal investigates the principles and structures of how groups remember and how their memory is structured and presented. In the case of Mark’s Gospel, this includes examining which image of Jesus, as well as which authorial self-image, this text as memory constructs. Reading Mark’s Gospel as a Text from Collective Memory serves less as a key to unlock questions about the historical Jesus and more as an examination of memory about him within a particular community, providing a new and important framework for interpreting the earliest canonical gospel in context.


Let the Reader Understand

Let the Reader Understand

Author: Robert M. Fowler

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9781563383380

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Robert Fowler's groundbreaking method—reader-response criticism—as a strategy for reading the Gospel of Mark invites contemporary readers to participating in making the meaning of the Gospel. Now available in paperback.


Perspectives on the Ending of Mark

Perspectives on the Ending of Mark

Author: Maurice Robinson

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0805447628

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The debate continues among today's leading Bible scholars about the conspicuous exclusion of twelve verses (16:9-20) in the gospel of Mark from some early Greek manuscripts.


The Emotionally Healthy Woman

The Emotionally Healthy Woman

Author: Geri Scazzero

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 0310339227

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Part of the bestselling Emotionally Healthy Spirituality book collection, The Emotionally Healthy Woman provides women a way out of surface-level spirituality to genuine freedom in Christ. Geri Scazzero knew there was something desperately wrong with her life. She felt like a single parent raising her four young daughters alone. She finally told her husband, "I quit," and left the thriving church he pastored, beginning a journey that transformed her and her marriage for the better. This book is for every woman who thinks, "I can’t keep pretending everything is fine!" Geri speaks like a friend as she uses personal stories and biblical principles to help you find your way out of superficial spirituality and move to a deep, meaningful, lifechanging relationship with God. And the journey begins by quitting. Geri quit being afraid of what others think. She quit lying. She quit denying her anger and sadness. She quit living someone else's life. When you quit those things that are damaging to your soul or the souls of others, you are freed up to choose other ways of being and relating that are rooted in love and lead to life. When you quit for the right reasons, at the right time, and in the right way, you're on the path not only to emotional health, but also to the true purpose of your life. Check out the full line of Emotionally Healthy Spirituality books dedicated to many different key areas of life. Workbooks, study guides, curriculum, and Spanish editions are also available.


The Gospel of Mark

The Gospel of Mark

Author: Mary Healy

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2008-11

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0801035864

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This volume inaugurates a series of accessibly written yet substantive commentaries for use in Catholic universities, seminaries, and parishes.


The Message of Mark

The Message of Mark

Author: Donald English

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2020-05-19

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0830812490

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In this BST volume, Donald English offers a wise, welcoming, and nontechnical guide to Mark, the smallest of the four Gospels. Along with exposition of each section of the text, English draws out principles and applications about the nature of true faith, the cost of discipleship, and how we should receive God's Word today.