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(More customer reviews)I found George Martin's, The Gospel According to Mark, a pleasure to read and very practical. He has thoroughly researched the scholarship on Mark and used it to under gird his observations. Martin's writing is clear and direct. He writes popularly, but substantially, so the book serves both lay readers like me and Bible scholars as well. And he does not take us down rabbit trails on technical matters that would sidetrack us from the main purpose of understanding the text at hand.
The book is also easy to read because it is laid out intelligently and gracefully. The gospel is presented in the text, so I did not have to go back and forth between it and my Bible. Passages of Mark are printed in bold and are followed by Martin's explanations in standard type. Scattered throughout the book are very informative blocks of information about the social, political, economic, and religious background of the gospel.
The Gospel According to Mark has changed the way I read the Bible. Martin's sentence by sentence explanation of the meaning of Mark's words and what they said to Mark's original readers has caused me to approach all Scripture with more care. His disciplined approach to figuring out the context of each passage has shown me the importance of working hard at discovering what the writers of Scripture intended to say to their first readers and what they say to me.
Best of all, however, George Martin's book has unpacked the meaning if Mark's gospel so effectively for me so that I am getting to know Jesus better, which is one of my life goals.
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The Gospel According to Mark is the first volume in the Opening the Scripture series by Loyola Press. Its subtitle, Meaning and Message, indicates its nature and purpose. It carefully examimes the meaning of the biblical text in order to discern the message of the Gospel of Mark for readers today.
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