Product Description

This volume on Mark’s Gospel is one of the series of commentaries on the New English Bible designed for use in schools and training colleges, and for the layman. Each volume will comment on one book, or two or three short books, of the Bible, beginning with the New Testament, already published. In each the text will be given in full. Sections of text and commentary alternate, so that the reader does not have to keep two books open, or turn from one part of the book to the other, or refer to a commentary in small type at the foot of the page. Great care is being taken to see that the commentary is suitable to the student and the layman: there is no Greek or Hebrew, and no strings of biblical references, but the commentary does convey the latest and best scholarship. The general editors all have experience of teaching or examining in school and working with adults. There will also be a general introductory volume, Understanding the New Testament, and a volume of maps and plates, The New Testament Illustrated.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #803710 in Books
• Published on: 1965-01-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 137 pages

Customer Reviews

Comments by Michael Calum Jacques author of '1st Century Radical'.
The Gospel of Mark remains pivotal to any serious reconstruction of Jesus of Nazareth and still tenders insights and key elements (variously agreed upon or disputed by modern scholars) towards our understanding of the life and times of the Galilean.

In the field of New Testament studies, for the uninitiated, CFD Moule is thought to be something akin to a 'safe pair of hands' indeed, the scholar himself lived a long and an interesting life.

Charles Francis Digby Moule CBE FBA (3 December 1908 - 30 September 2007), was known to his friends as Charlie. He was actually born in China and his great uncle later became Bishop of Durham. In short, Moule was an eminent scholar of the New Testament, and was Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge for some 25 years, between 1951 to 1976 and was also Vice-Principal of Ridley Hall from 1936 to 1944. He was still preaching, even well into his 90s.

The Cambridge Bible Commentary can still be considered to be a benchmark for sound scholarship, thorough introductions which introduce the reader to the pertinent historical, critical and even (on occasions) the socio-political issues of the day. Clearly, each volume will differ according to the priorities and particular academic specialties and interests of the author of that particular work yet, taken as a whole, the series tends to present the views which have gained currency within the mainstream of Biblical Scholarship and is rarely, if indeed ever, a platform for what may be described as either extremist or fringe standpoints.

The presentation of the material is always clear and well-delineated. One of the features of this series is that, because of the basic simplicity of its design and its treatment of individual verses, passages and topics, it is suitable for use within the school, church (as a Bible study resource) or even the home as a self-study guide.

Michael Calum Jacques.