The Gospel According to Mark: New Collegeville Bible Commentary, Vol 2
Stock No: WW628613
The Gospel According to Mark: New Collegeville Bible Commentary, Vol 2   -     By: Marie F. Sabin

The Gospel According to Mark: New Collegeville Bible Commentary, Vol 2

Liturgical Press / 2005 / Paperback

In Stock
Stock No: WW628613

Buy Item Our Price$8.96 Retail: $9.95 Save 10% ($0.99)
In Stock
Quantity:
Stock No: WW628613
Liturgical Press / 2005 / Paperback
Quantity:

Add To Cart

or checkout with

Add To Wishlist
Quantity:


Add To Cart

or checkout with

Wishlist

Product Close-up | Editorial Reviews
This product is not available for expedited shipping.
* This product is available for shipment only to the USA.
Others Also Purchased (15)
Select this Item Product Title/Author Availability Price Quantity
$26.73
In Stock
Our Price$26.73
Add To Cart
$26.73
$31.49
In Stock
Our Price$31.49
Retail: $34.99
Add To Cart
$31.49
$26.99
In Stock
Our Price$26.99
Retail: $29.99
Add To Cart
$26.99
$23.39
In Stock
Our Price$23.39
Retail: $25.99
Add To Cart
$23.39
$50.85
In Stock
Our Price$50.85
Retail: $56.50
Add To Cart
$50.85
$41.10
In Stock
Our Price$41.10
Add To Cart
$41.10
$99.99
In Stock
Our Price$99.99
Retail: $115.99
Add To Cart
$99.99
$98.99
In Stock
Our Price$98.99
Retail: $114.99
Add To Cart
$98.99
$59.99
In Stock
Our Price$59.99
Retail: $114.99
Add To Cart
$59.99
$12.49
In Stock
Our Price$12.49
Retail: $22.99
Add To Cart
$12.49
$6.30
In Stock
Our Price$6.30
Retail: $7.00
Add To Cart
$6.30
$12.49
In Stock
Our Price$12.49
Retail: $24.99
Add To Cart
$12.49
$18.49
In Stock
Our Price$18.49
Retail: $32.99
Add To Cart
$18.49
$155.76
In Stock
Our Price$155.76
Retail: $311.76
Add To Cart
$155.76
In This Series (11)

Product Description

Comprehensive and understandable, the New Collegeville Bible Commentary series brings the timeless messages and relevance of the New Testament to today's readers. With recent scholarship, this series provides vital background and addresses important questions such as authorship and cultural context. The New Collegeville Bible Commentary includes New American Bible translation and will appeal to preachers, teachers, Bible study groups, and Bible readers. This commentary on the Gospel According to Mark makes accessible to the reader the rich traditions of the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism that form the context and texture of the Christian Gospel. It provides the general historical setting of the Temple, Jerusalem, and the Romans in the first century; calls attention to Mark's use of language and literary structure; and shows how Mark interweaves Jewish Scripture and tradition to interpret the meaning of Jesus. In particular, Marie F. Sabin highlights the influence of the Wisdom writings and how Mark draws on them to present Jesus as God's Wisdom made flesh, and invites readers to reflect on the implications of this Gospel for our own time.

Product Information

Title: The Gospel According to Mark: New Collegeville Bible Commentary, Vol 2
By: Marie F. Sabin
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 160
Vendor: Liturgical Press
Publication Date: 2005
Dimensions: 9 X 6 (inches)
Weight: 8 ounces
ISBN: 0814628613
ISBN-13: 9780814628614
Series: New Collegeville Bible Commentary
Stock No: WW628613

Publisher's Description

New Collegeville Bible Commentary
The Gospel According to Mark
Volume 2

The absence of stories of Jesus' birth and infancy, a minimum of Jesus' parables and a resurrection scene without sight or sound of the risen Jesus have tempted readers to shortchange Mark's Gospel. Thanks to the insightful analysis and inspiring reflections of Marie Noonan Sabin, anyone studying this premier Gospel with her guidance will recognize the genius of the original author.

Sabin asserts that Mark's Gospel is not an eyewitness account or a work of biography or history. She writes, What Mark gives us is far richer. He interprets Jesus in the light of the Hebrew Bible, showing Jesus to be not only a teacher of Wisdom but Wisdom itself, calling his followers to an unconventional wisdom, a way of living (and a way of dying) that he himself exemplifies."

The cover of this commentary from The Saint John's Bible highlights Sabin's thesis that the transfiguration of Jesus is pivotal to the Gospel: "The scene [9:2-8]overshadows both parts of the Gospel, emphasizing God's creative, transforming, transfiguring power to restore life."

Sabin gives special attention to Mark's key words and phrases (e.g., "release," "rise up" or "be raised," "straightway," and "ecstasy") and his pattern of twos and threes. Especially helpful are the summaries at the end of each chapter. Here is a commentary that will restore Mark's prime place among the other two Synoptic Gospels.

Marie Noonan Sabin, Ph.D., has taught the Gospel of Mark at Bangor Theological Seminary; an earlier book on Mark, Reopening the Word, was published by Oxford University Press in 2002.

Author Bio

Marie Noonan Sabin holds a PhD in English from Yale and an MA from Union Theological Seminary. She has taught English at Vassar, Barnard, and Douglass, and the Gospel of Mark at Bangor Theological Seminary. She is the author of Evolving Humanity and Biblical Wisdom: Reading Scripture through the Lens of Teilhard de Chardin and The Gospel According to Mark in the New Collegeville Bible Commentary series published by Liturgical Press. She is also the author of Reopening the Word: Reading Mark as Theology in the Context of Early Judaism (Oxford University Press).

About the Series

Comprehensive and understandable, the New Collegeville Bible Commentary series brings the timeless messages and relevance of the Old Testament to today's readers. With recent scholarship, this series provides vital background and addresses important questions such as authorship and cultural context. The New Collegeville Bible Commentary books use the New American Bible translation and will appeal to preachers, teachers, Bible study groups, and all readers of the Bible.

Editorial Reviews

This short sample is typical of Sabin’s ability to bring readers along, leading us to a fuller understanding and appreciation of familiar bible stories and connecting them to one another and to the Old Testament.
Writing Works

“Marie Noonan Sabin’s description of the Markan narrative is likewise applicable to her fine commentary: “Rich in Scripture, theological in purpose, and brilliant in design, Mark’s Gospel (and Sabin’s commentary) invites its readers to become followers of Jesus’ transfiguring wisdom.””
Gregg S. Morrison Simpson University Redding, California

Ask a Question

Author/Artist Review