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The Gospel According to Saint Mark injects fresh life into the series! Basing her observations on her own new translation of the Greek text, Hooker explores, pericope by pericope, what the author of Mark’s Gospel wanted his original readers to understand, what he says about the historical Jesus and the early community of the faithful, and what he conveys theologically throughout the entire...

God’s advent in salvation and judgement has taken place in Jesus. The minor changes to two of the passages noted above have been introduced in order to make them appropriate, and whereas the Hebrew of Isaiah 40 understands the wilderness as the place where the way is to be prepared (‘in the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord’), Mark follows the LXX in attaching the phrase ‘in the wilderness’ to the voice, so introducing the figure of John the Baptist as a voice crying in the wilderness. The messenger
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