Duran explores how Mark's Gospel engages in its own effort of ritualization; a struggle in its need to make order out of experience, with out losing the truth of the experience itself. Mark's Gospel has been seen as history, or as literature. The tensions between these two appro…
"Tom Wright's comments on the gospel and what it might mean for us are combined, passage by passage, with his own fresh and involving translation. Making use of his true scholar's understanding, yet writing in an approachable and anecdotal style, Wright captures the urgency and …
This book presents a multi-level approach to Mark 15:34 arguing that a contextual reading of Ps 22:2 does not negate or dilute the presentation of Jesus as one in distress. Using a multi-level approach to Mark 15:34, and contra to the opinion of the majority of Markan scholarshi…
