Mark : a reader-response commentary / Bas M.F. van Iersel ; translated by W.H. Bisscheroux.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Iersel, Bas van, 1924-1999.

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Series:

Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; 164.

Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; 164

Standardized Title:

Marcus. English

Language:

Dutch

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Mark--Commentaries.

Bible.

Bible. Mark--Reader-response criticism.

Bible. Mark.

Reader-response criticism.

Genre:

Commentaries.

Physical Description:

556 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Sheffield, England : Sheffield Academic Press, [1998]

Summary:

The distinguished Dutch New Testament scholar Bas van Iersel offers us an incisive and comprehensive episode-by-episode commentary on the Gospel of Mark. His special focus is on the contribution of each episode to the overall meaning of the gospel, at both the level of the story and the level of the discourse. As a reader-response commentator, his concern is everywhere with the effect of Mark's story on its readers, engaging both with the situation of the original audience of Mark-Christians of Gentile origin in Rome shortly after the Neronian persecutions-and with that of the present-day reader. Even the introductions are reader-related: on the role of the reader, the original audience and the reader of today, the overall concentric structure of Mark, and the relation of Mark to the Old Testament.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [509]-526) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

1850758298

OCLC:

44812050