T&T Clark Study Guides: Mark
Overview
Telford divides his study of Mark into three categories: history, literature, and theology. He discusses what Mark’s narrative of Jesus reveals about the early Christians, and how Mark blends history and theology together. The final chapter focuses on the general questions of the Gospel’s purpose and setting.
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Top Highlights
“Mark’s secrecy motif, as we have already noted, extends also to the message of Jesus as it is expressed in his parables and sayings. ‘To you has been given the secret of the Kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables so that they may indeed see but not perceive, and may indeed hear and not understand; lest they should turn again, and be forgiven’ (4:11–12).” (Page 130)
“When employed originally by Jesus, parables were intended, it is usually assumed, to elucidate his message rather than to mystify his audience. By the time they came to be written down, however, they were frequently found to be puzzling or obscure, hence the tendency of the church or evangelist to invest them with allegorical meaning.” (Page 130)
“later church fathers were almost certainly dependent upon Papias, and hence offer no independent attestation” (Page 18)
“Eschatology, to put it another way, is on the way to being eclipsed by christology” (Page 135)
“While the vivid details within the Gospel indicate the” (Page 17)
- Title: T&T Clark Study Guides: Mark
- Author: W.R. Telford
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Publication Date: 2003
- Pages: 155