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Abingdon New Testament Commentaries: Mark

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ISBN-10: 0687058414

ISBN-13: 9780687058419

Edition: 2011

Authors: C. Clifton Black, Pheme Perkins, Vernon Robbins, D. Moody Smith, Jouette M. Bassler

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Mark#xE2;#xAC;"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#xE2;#xAC;"s good news. The Evangelist hurries one along breathlessly, #xE2;#xAC;Simmediately,#xE2;#xAC; making sure that the reader lurches with the characters into one pothole after another. #xE2;#xAC;SWhat is this new teaching#xE2;#xAC; that consorts with the flagrantly sinful, turning the pious homicidal, intimates into strangers, and mustard seeds into #xE2;#xAC;Sthe greatest of all #xE2;#xAC;#xA6; shrubs#xE2;#xAC;? Jesus#xE2;#xAC;" closest adherents, the Twelve, are among the most muddled. Who can blame them? They ask for an…    
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Book details

List price: $30.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Publication date: 10/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.90" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Pheme Perkins is Professor of New Testament at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and the author of several books.

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D. Moody Smith is George Washington Ivey Professor Emeritus of New Testament at Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina.