{"id":4706,"date":"2009-03-26T15:02:47","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T15:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2009\/03\/pastors-bookshelf-mark.html"},"modified":"2009-03-26T15:02:47","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T15:02:47","slug":"pastors-bookshelf-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/03\/pastors-bookshelf-mark.html","title":{"rendered":"Pastor’s Bookshelf: Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"EvangMark.jpg\"<\/span>We are doing a series on NT commentaries, and I have to confess that I forgot about it … so here is the Gospel of Mark. Our goals is to provide for pastors and students and serious Bible students a listing of the top commentaries. There is an abundance, and I’m happy to hear about the ones you really like.<\/p>\n

Probably the most intense, complete, and scholarly commentary on Mark is by Adela Yarbro Collins, Mark: A Commentary (Hermeneia: a Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible)<\/a>\"\"<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

We can lighten up here with a theologically sound commentary, and an old one that I still get lots from: William Lane: The Gospel According to Mark: The English Text With Introduction, Exposition, and Notes (New International Commentary on the New Testament)<\/a>\"\"
\n<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Next I consult R.T. France, who has the capacity to write sound commentaries and the efficiency to get it done — without it become an exercise in bibliographic endlessness — I’ve learned lots from France: The Gospel of Mark: New International Commentary on the Greek Testament (New International Greek Testament Commentary)<\/a>\"\"
\n<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

The next commentary is intense and complete, but it’s incomplete in this sense: Bob Guelich, who died way too soon, began the commentary and then Craig Evans finished it: Word Biblical Commentary Vol. 34b, Mark 8:27-16:20 <\/a>\"\" <\/strong><\/em>; the first volume by Guelich: Word Biblical Commentary Vol. 34a, Mark 1-8:26 (guelich), 498pp<\/a>\"\"
\n<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

And, I really like Morna Hooker’s commentary on Mark; Professor Hooker can write a commentary and just keep her readers in the text and not become aware of how much she knows — and she knows this stuff very well. Her commentary is a steal: The Gospel According to Saint Mark<\/a>\"\"
\n<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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