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The Way of the Lord: Christological Exegesis of the Old Testament in the Gospel of Mark is unavailable, but you can change that!

The New Testament’s messianic interpretation of the Old is an important key to its theology. This book examines the way the author of the Gospel of Mark uses the Old Testament to convey the identity of Jesus. Joel Marcus examines in detail several important Markan passages which use the Old Testament. His central thesis is that Mark’s Old Testament usage follows paths already made by Jewish...

The previous Markan passage, the Lord’s Supper pericope in 14:22–26, also seems to allude to Zech. 14:1–5. Mark 14:26, which forms a transition between the two passages, describes a movement to the Mount of Olives by Jesus and his disciples. We have just noted the reference to the Mount of Olives in Zech. 14:4; this is one of only two Old Testament references to the mount (the other is 2 Sam. 15:30). The Zecharian passage is a prophecy that at the eschaton Yahweh will go forth to do battle against
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