MARK
William L. Lane
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Grand Rapids, Michigan / Cambridge, U.K.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bible. N.T. Mark. English. 1974.
The Gospel according to Mark.
(The New International Commentary on the New Testament, v. 2)
1. Bible. N.T. Mark—Commentaries.
I. Lane, William L., 1931–. II. Title. III. Series.
BS2585.3.L36 226′.3′066 73-76529
ISBN 978-0-8028-2502-5
DR. BURTON L. GODDARD
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whose entire life and ministry
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1. A New Direction for Marcan Studies
2. The Tradition Concerning the Gospel
3. The Life Situation That Occasioned the Gospel
7. Some Considerations on Style and Literary Method
8. Analysis of the Gospel According to Mark
Text, Exposition and Notes
Additional Note on Repentance in the Rabbinic Literature
Additional Note on the Supplementary Endings to the Gospel
Additional Note on the Theology of the Freer Logion
INDEXES
This is the third volume on the Gospels in the New International Commentary on the New Testament. The volume on the Gospel of Luke, by the late Norval Geldenhuys, was published as long ago as 1950—it was in fact the first volume to appear in the series as a whole—and then we had to wait for over twenty years for the next Gospel commentary, Dr. Leon Morris’s comprehensive exposition of the Gospel of John. Hard on its heels comes the present volume, and Professor Herman Ridderbos is currently at work on the exposition of Matthew’s Gospel, which will complete the quartet.
The late General Editor of the series, Dr. N. B. Stonehouse, invited Dr. Lane to undertake the commentary on the Gospel of Mark shortly before his death in 1961. How sound Dr. Stonehouse’s judgment was in extending this invitation the reader of the commentary may judge for himself.
Dr. Lane is known in scholarly circles as a member of the international Society for New Testament Studies and as a contributor to its journal, New Testament Studies. At a less specialist level he is known as joint-author (along with two of his colleagues at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary) of the volume The New Testament Speaks (New York: Harper & Row, 1969). But the writing of this commentary has provided him with an opportunity to deploy his scholarly and exegetical power to its full extent. In his Author’s Preface ...
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About The Gospel of MarkThe Gospel of Mark is significant in many ways. Not only was it the first Gospel to be written and an important literary source for Matthew and Luke, but it is also best characterized as a witness document, a proclamation of salvation through Jesus Christ, which received its creative impulse from the early apostolic preaching. Mark bears witness to the word of revelation that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God. In this widely praised commentary by William L. Lane, Mark is revealed as a theologian whose primary intention was the strengthening of the people of God in a time of fiery persecution by Nero. Using redaction criticism as a hermeneutical approach for understanding the text and the intention of the evangelist, Lane considers the Gospel of Mark as a total literary work and describes Mark’s creative role in shaping the Gospel tradition and in exercising a conscious theological purpose. By taking care to indicate how the text was heard by Mark’s contemporaries while also placing the study of Mark within the frame of reference offered by modern Gospel research, Lane has constructed a thorough going work that is at once useful to scholars and highly intelligible to nonspecialists. |
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