The Gospel of Mark

The Gospel of Mark
Author: Charles A. Bobertz
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2016-10-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493405713

How Baptism and the Eucharist Shaped Early Christian Understandings of Jesus Long before the Gospel writers put pen to papyrus, the earliest Christians participated in the powerful rituals of baptism and the Lord's Supper, which fundamentally shaped their understanding of God, Christ, and the world in which they lived. In this volume, a respected biblical scholar and teacher explores how cultural anthropology and ritual studies elucidate ancient texts. Charles Bobertz offers a liturgical reading of the Gospel of Mark, arguing that the Gospel is a narrative interpretation of early Christian ritual. This fresh, responsible, and creative proposal will benefit scholars, professors, and students. Its ecclesial and pastoral ramifications will also be of interest to church leaders and pastors.

Reading Mark

Reading Mark
Author: Sharyn Echols Dowd
Publisher: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2000
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 9781573122887

Dowd examines the Gospel of Mark from literary and theological perspectives, suggesting what the text may have meant to its first-century audience of Gentile and Jewish Christians. Mark is a Greco-Roman biography of Jesus written in an apocalyptic mode. Its theology is based on the message of the prophet Isaiah- the proclamation of release from bondage and a march toward freedom along the "way of the Lord."

Reading Mark

Reading Mark
Author: David M. Rhoads
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2004
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781451406191

One of the leading scholars on the Gospel of Mark utilizes a variety of methods to plumb the depths of this earliest story of Jesus. From new forms of literary criticism, social-scientific explorations, and reader-response criticism, Rhoads brings fresh insights to gospel studies.

The Gospel of Luke

The Gospel of Luke
Author: Pope Francis
Publisher: Orbis Books
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2021-09-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1608338959

"The Gospel of Luke is a pastoral commentary on the Gospel by Pope Francis, drawn from his homilies, writings, and speeches since he was elected pope"--

Reading Mark's Gospel as a Text from Collective Memory

Reading Mark's Gospel as a Text from Collective Memory
Author: Sandra Huebenthal
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 644
Release: 2020-05-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1467458465

How did the Gospel of Mark come to exist? And how was the memory of Jesus shaped by the experiences of the earliest Christians? For centuries, biblical scholars examined texts as history, literature, theology, or even as story. Curiously absent, however, has been attention to processes of collective memory in the creation of biblical texts. Drawing on modern explorations of social memory, Sandra Huebenthal presents a model for reading biblical texts as collective memories. She demonstrates that the Gospel of Mark is a text evolving from collective narrative memory based on recollections of Jesus’s life and teachings. Huebenthal investigates the principles and structures of how groups remember and how their memory is structured and presented. In the case of Mark’s Gospel, this includes examining which image of Jesus, as well as which authorial self-image, this text as memory constructs. Reading Mark’s Gospel as a Text from Collective Memory serves less as a key to unlock questions about the historical Jesus and more as an examination of memory about him within a particular community, providing a new and important framework for interpreting the earliest canonical gospel in context.

The Gospel of Mark

The Gospel of Mark
Author: Mary Healy
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2008-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0801035864

This volume inaugurates a series of accessibly written yet substantive commentaries for use in Catholic universities, seminaries, and parishes.

Let the Reader Understand

Let the Reader Understand
Author: Robert M. Fowler
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781563383380

Robert Fowler's groundbreaking method—reader-response criticism—as a strategy for reading the Gospel of Mark invites contemporary readers to participating in making the meaning of the Gospel. Now available in paperback.

Perspectives on the Ending of Mark

Perspectives on the Ending of Mark
Author: Maurice Robinson
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2008
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0805447628

The debate continues among today's leading Bible scholars about the conspicuous exclusion of twelve verses (16:9-20) in the gospel of Mark from some early Greek manuscripts.

The Emotionally Healthy Woman

The Emotionally Healthy Woman
Author: Geri Scazzero
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310339227

Part of the bestselling Emotionally Healthy Spirituality book collection, The Emotionally Healthy Woman provides women a way out of surface-level spirituality to genuine freedom in Christ. Geri Scazzero knew there was something desperately wrong with her life. She felt like a single parent raising her four young daughters alone. She finally told her husband, "I quit," and left the thriving church he pastored, beginning a journey that transformed her and her marriage for the better. This book is for every woman who thinks, "I can’t keep pretending everything is fine!" Geri speaks like a friend as she uses personal stories and biblical principles to help you find your way out of superficial spirituality and move to a deep, meaningful, lifechanging relationship with God. And the journey begins by quitting. Geri quit being afraid of what others think. She quit lying. She quit denying her anger and sadness. She quit living someone else's life. When you quit those things that are damaging to your soul or the souls of others, you are freed up to choose other ways of being and relating that are rooted in love and lead to life. When you quit for the right reasons, at the right time, and in the right way, you're on the path not only to emotional health, but also to the true purpose of your life. Check out the full line of Emotionally Healthy Spirituality books dedicated to many different key areas of life. Workbooks, study guides, curriculum, and Spanish editions are also available.

Mark as Story

Mark as Story
Author: David M. Rhoads
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2012-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1451411049

For thirty years, Mark as Story has introduced readers to the rhetorical and narrative skill that makes Mark so arresting and compelling a story. Rhoads, Dewey, and Michie have helped to pioneer our appreciation of the Gospels, and Mark in particular, as narratives originally created in an oral culture for oral performance. New in this edition are a revised introduction and an afterword describing the significant role Mark as Story has played in the development of narrative criticism.