Mary Ann Tolbert, George H. Atkinson Professor of Biblical Studies at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California, offers "one of the freshest interpretations of Mark's Gospel I have ever had the privilege to read. . . . It marks a milestone in the recent history of Markan research" (Jack Dean Kingsbury).
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Helpful Interpretive Framework For Mark's Gospel,
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This review is from: Sowing the Gospel: Mark's World in Literary Historical Perspective (Hardcover)
In this excellent commentary on the Gospel of Mark, Professor Tolbert takes the "Parable of the Sower" and uses it as an interpretive tool to understand the story and meaning of the Gospel text. This method helps the reader (or hearer) of the Markan story interpret the many characters within the Gospel narrative. Highly recommended.
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Insightful, but incomplete.,
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This review is from: Sowing the Gospel: Mark's Work in Literary-Historical Perspective (Paperback)
The author approaches her interpretation of the gospel from one basic line of analysis - the four types of "earth" of the "sower". Even so, the approach is deeply insightful in depicting the theme of discipleship and response to Mark's message. Although promising early in the book to provide an allegorical interpretation of the text, I was disappointed that the allegorical meanings of the "unclean spirits" and "demons" of the early episodes in the story were neither recognized nor explained. Thus, the social context of the implied audience was left virtually untouched in an otherwise thorough treatment of the characters of the narrative. Because the interpretation is based on understanding individual and group characters and not on the social context in which they lived, the overall interpretation left this reader unsatisfied. Not the most highly recommended or complete treatment among the contemporary texts on Mark, but nonetheless worthy of consideration for understanding the theme of discipleship in greater depth than many texts offer.
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- The New Interpreter's Bible: Matthew - Mark (Volume 8) by Leander E. Keck on 7 pages
- A Complete Literary Guide to the Bible by Leland Ryken on page 375, page 386, and page 397
- Reopening the Word: Reading Mark as Theology in the Context of Early Judaism by Marie Noonan Sabin in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Myth of a Gentile Galilee (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series) by Mark A. Chancey on page 178, and Back Matter
- What Are the Gospels?: A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series) by Richard A. Burridge on page 95, and Back Matter
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