Preaching Mark (Fortress Resources for Preaching)

An expert guide from Galillee to Jerusalem This new resource examines the major literary units of Mark's Gospel with an eye toward helping the pastor in.
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Second, this work focuses on units of material rather than proceeding verse by verse. The lectionaries of the church present Mark's Gospel to the worshipping church in small units technically called pericopae. Furthermore, in examining particulars in great detail, verse-by-verse exposition has a tendency to obscure the general significance of a passage.

Preaching Mark

Pheme Perkins notes in her introduction to Mark in the New Interpreter's Bible that "most parishioners encounter the text. Third, I have tried to avoid scholarly apparatus. I transliterate Greek, avoid technical textual matters, and keep documentation at a minimum. In order for the book to be useful for students and seminarians, I provide suggestions for further reading, and Appendix 2 is an annotated bibliography of works I have found to be of special interest to those preaching and teaching Mark. My "suggestions for further reading" are not always the most recent publications.

My criteria for selection was usefulness to the preacher and teacher, not what has been published most recently. Fourth, my remarks on the text move toward application. My methodological assumption is that, of all the Jesus material available to him, Mark preserved this material for a reason. Mark recorded these selections of the tradition he received because they spoke to his community, the church for which he wrote the Gospel.

Thus behind my commentary on any given pericope are these questions: Why did Mark preserve this story? Why was it important for his community? My sense is that the answers to these questions should direct the course for contemporary preaching. Although it is not a particularly avant-garde position, I understand the Gospel of Mark to be a historical document not, one should note, history.

The intent of its author and his circumstances set limits on how the text should be interpreted in our own day. Mark's intent in preserving a story circumscribes to some extent its appropriate interpretation. Finally, in this book I am not proposing an overarching theory about Mark's Gospel.

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Nor do I write to take issue with the scholars and commentators who do develop synthetic readings of Mark. My aim is far more modest: Excerpt from Chapter 1 The Prologue: The length of Mark's prologue is debated. Three possibilities are suggested.

First, some scholars suggest 1: Others think that 1: The third possibility is that the prologue includes vv. In this regard, I am a maximalist and read vv. My decision is based on what appears to me to be the structure of the passage. Verse 1 begins and v. Within these brackets, material about Jesus and John alternates Jesus, v. Verses are included as the summary of Jesus' teaching and preaching, to which Mark frequently alludes in the early scenes of the Gospel. When teaching is mentioned but not reported, we are to remember vv. What Mark does at the outset is to provide all the hearer or reader needs to understand Jesus and the Gospel.

We begin with information that no character in the story has. We are told that Jesus is the Christ and the Son of God, facts that characters in the narrative must discover as it unfolds. Morna Hooker notes that the information at the outset of Mark 1 "is primarily christological. The baptism introduces the Trinity and provides divine confirmation of the identity of Jesus given in v. The temptation of Jesus depicts him as one who overcomes Satan. The identity of Jesus and the extent of his ministry are summarized in these fifteen verses.

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