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Title: Mark: Hermeneia, a Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible By: Adela Yarbro Collins Format: Hardcover Number of Pages: 800 Vendor: Fortress Press Publication Date: 2007 | Dimensions: 8.25 X 7.25 (inches) Weight: 5 pounds ISBN: 0800660781 ISBN-13: 9780800660789 Series: Hermeneia Commentary Stock No: WW660780 |
Professor Adela Yarbro Collins brings to bear on the text of the first Gospel the latest historical-critical perspectives, providing a full treatment of such controversial issues as the relationship of canonical Mark to the "Secret Gospel of Mark" and the text of the Gospel, including its longer endings. She situates the Gospel, with its enigmatic portrait of the misunderstood Messiah, in the context of Jewish and Greco-Roman literature of the first century. Her comments draw on her profound knowledge of apocalyptic literature as well as on the traditions of popular biography in the Greco-Roman world to illuminate the overall literary form of the Gospel.
The commentary also introduces an impressive store of data on the language and style of Mark, illustrated from papyrological and epigraphical sources. Collins is in constructive dialogue with the wide range of scholarship on Mark that has been produced in the twentieth century. Her work will be foundational for Markan scholarship in the first half of the twenty-first century.
Harold W. Attridge is Dean of Yale University Divinity School and Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament. His books include Hebrews in the Hermeneia series (1989, 978-0-8006-6021-5).
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