Tyndale New Testament Commentaries

Volume 2

Series Editor: Eckhard J. Schnabel

Consulting Editor: Nicholas Perrin

Mark

An Introduction and Commentary

Eckhard J. Schnabel

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© 2017 by Eckhard J. Schnabel

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First published 2017

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USA ISBN 978-0-8308-4292-6 (print)

USA ISBN 978-0-8308-9497-0 (digital)

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UK ISBN 978-1-78359-310-1 (digital)

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To Paul Schnabel,

my father in the truest sense of the word,

who has been preaching the gospel for seventy years

CONTENTS

General preface

Author’s preface

Abbreviations

Select bibliography

Introduction

1. Mark among the Gospels

2. Characteristics of Mark’s Gospel

3. The origin of Mark’s Gospel

4. Theological emphases

5. The structure of Mark’s Gospel

Analysis

Commentary

GENERAL PREFACE

The Tyndale Commentaries have been a flagship series for evangelical readers of the Bible for over sixty years. Both the original New Testament volumes (1956–1974) as well as the new commentaries (1983–2003) rightly established themselves as a point of first reference for those who wanted more than is usually offered in a one-volume Bible commentary, without requiring the technical skills in Greek and in Jewish and Greco-Roman studies of the more detailed series, with the ...