Mark - A Reader-Response Commentary

Informationen zum Autor Before his retirement, Bas van Iersel was Ordinary Professor of New Testament and Rector Magnificus of the Catholic University, Nijmegen. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Bas M. F. Iersel, Bas M. van Iersel, Bastiaan Martinus Franci Iersel, Bas M van Iersel, Bas M. van Iersel
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1997
• EAN: 9781850758297
• ISBN: 978-1-85075-829-7
• No. of pages: 562
• Series: Journal for the Study of the N; Journal for the Study of the N; The Library of New Testament Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Biblical Meditations / General, RELIGION / Reference, Christianity, Bible readings, selections & meditations, Bible readings, selections and meditations, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Commentaries