Mark 1-8:26, Volume 34A (34) (Word Biblical Commentary)

✍ Scribed by Robert A. Guelich, David Allen Hubbard (editor), Glenn W. Barker (editor)

• Publisher: Zondervan Academic
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 498
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the text in the framework of biblical theology. These widely acclaimed commentaries serve as exceptional resources for the professional theologian and instructor, the seminary or university student, the working minister, and everyone concerned with building theological understanding from a solid base of biblical scholarship.

Overview of Commentary Organization

• Introduction—covers issues pertaining to the whole book, including context, date, authorship, composition, interpretive issues, purpose, and theology.
• Each section of the commentary includes:
• Pericope Bibliography—a helpful resource containing the most important works that pertain to each particular pericope.
• Translation—the author’s own translation of the biblical text, reflecting the end result of exegesis and attending to Hebrew and Greek idiomatic usage of words, phrases, and tenses, yet in reasonably good English.
• Notes—the author’s notes to the translation that address any textual variants, grammatical forms, syntactical constructions, basic meanings of words, and problems of translation.
• Form/Structure/Setting—a discussion of redaction, genre, sources, and tradition as they concern the origin of the pericope, its canonical form, and its relation to the biblical and extra-biblical contexts in order to illuminate the structure and character of the pericope. Rhetorical or compositional features important to understanding the passage are also introduced here.
• Comment—verse-by-verse interpretation of the text and dialogue with other interpreters, engaging with current opinion and scholarly research.
• Explanation—brings together all the results of the discussion in previous sections to expose the meaning and intention of the text at several levels: (1) within the context of the book itself; (2) its meaning in the OT or NT; (3) its place in the entire canon; (4) theological relevance to broader OT or NT issues.
  • General Bibliography—occurring at the end of each volume, this extensive bibliographycontains all sources used anywhere in the commentary.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Editorial Preface
Author’s Preface
Abbreviations
Main Bibliography
Introduction
Genre
Mark As Narrative
Author
Place
Date
Sources
Structure
Outline
The Theology of Mark
The Purpose of Mark’s Gospel
Mark: Text and Commentary
I. The Beginning of the Gospel According to Isaiah (1:1–15)
A. The Heading (1:1–3)
Excursus: ΕϒΑΓΓΕΛΙΟΝ
B. The Promised Precursor (1:4–8)
Excursus: Baptism With the Spirit and/or Fire
C. The Baptism of Jesus (1:9–11)
D. The Temptation of Jesus (1:12–13)
E. The Fulfillment of Time (1:14–15)
II. New Wine In Old Wineskins (1:16–3:12)
A. The Calling of the First Disciples (1:16–20)
B. Jesus’ Teaching With Authority (1:21–28)
C. The Healing of Peter’s Mother-In-Law (1:29–31)
D. Healings At Evening Time (1:32–34)
E. Preaching In Surrounding Areas (1:35–39)
F. Healing of the Leper (1:40–45)
G. The Healing of the Paralytic (2:1–12)
H. The Call of Levi and a Feast With Toll Collectors and Sinners (2:13–17)
I. The Question About Fasting (2:18–22)
J. Reaping On the Sabbath (2:23–28)
K. A Sabbath Healing (3:1–6)
L. Summary of Jesus’ Healing Ministry (3:7–12)
III. The Mystery of the Kingdom of God (3:13–6:6)
A. The Calling of the Twelve (3:13–19)
B. Jesus and His Family (3:20–35)
C. The Parable of the Seeds (4:1–9)
D. The Mystery of the Kingdom (4:10–12)
E. Interpretation of the Seeds (4:13–20)
F. Summons to Hear (4:21–25)
G. The Parable of the Seed’s Growth (4:26–29)
H. The Parable of the Mustard Seed (4:30–32)
I. Summary (4:33–34)
J. The Stilling of the Storm (4:35–41)
K. The Gerasene Demoniac (5:1–20)
L. The Raising of Jairus’ Daughter and the Healing of the Woman With a Hemorrhage (Mark 5:21–43)
M. Jesus In Nazareth (Mark 6:1–6a)
N. Summary Report (Mark 6:6b)
IV. “Do You Not Yet Understand?” (6:7–8:26)
A. The Mission of the Twelve (Mark 6:7–13)
B. The Death of John the Baptist (Mark 6:14–29)
C. The Feeding of the Five Thousand (6:30–44)
D. Jesus Walks On the Sea (6:45–52)
E. Healings In Gennesaret (6:53–56)
F. On Tradition and Defilement (7:1–13)
G. On Defilement (7:14–23)
H. The Syrophoenician Woman (7:24–30)
I. The Healing of the Deaf-Mute (7:31–37)
J. The Feeding of the Four Thousand (8:1–9)
K. The Demand for a Sign (8:10–13)
L. Warning Against the Leaven of the Pharisees and Herod (8:14–21)
M. The Blind Man of Bethsaida (8:22–26)
Indexes
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Biblical and Other Ancient Sources