Mark for the Nations

A Text- and Reader-Oriented Commentary

Lars Hartman

• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN:
  9781556358944
  9781498251341
• eBook ISBN:
  9781498270076
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Commentary

Mark for the Nations is a translation by the author of his Swedish commentary on the Gospel of Mark. It is meant both for students of theology and for pastors, as well as for lay people. Hartman reads Mark's Gospel through the eyes of an early Gentile-Christian reader. For this reason he quotes much material from the Hellenistic world in translation. To some extent this material appears here for the first time in a gospel commentary. The analysis makes use of literary criticism and text linguistics, but avoids the technical terminology. To stimulate a modern reader's understanding of the evangelist's message to his first-century audience Hartman has endeavored to translate traditional terms into slightly more common language.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Introduction: A Commentary—on What?
• Chapter 1: Introduction: According to God’s Plan—His Representative Enters the Stage
• Chapter 2: The Message of God’s Representative about the Reign of God
• Chapter 3: God’s Representative Teaches with Authority and so Manifests the Reign of God
• Chapter 4: Some Features of the Message of God’s Representative about God’s Reign
• Chapter 5: Those Who Learn from God’s Representative and Those Who Reject Him
• Chapter 6: The Work of God in His Hidden Reign: Gift and Responsibilities
• Chapter 7: Behind Himself God’s Representative Has the Power of God, Which Is to Trust
• Chapter 8: Received and Not Received—Successors and Predecessors in the Mission of God’s Representative
• Chapter 9: More about How God’s Representative Does God’s Work—but It Is not Understood
• Chapter 10: God’s Representative Also Includes Non-Jews in His Commission
• Chapter 11: God’s Representative Is Merciful as God Is. But Who Believes It?
• Chapter 12: The Enigmatic Way of God’s Representative—and That of His Followers
• Chapter 13: To Follow Jesus, God’s Representative—Some Basic Conditions
• Chapter 14: To Follow Jesus: To Accept Events and Humans
• Chapter 15: To Follow Jesus in Close Social Relationships—Ideals beyond the Usual
• Chapter 16: To Follow Jesus Who Was Humiliated for Others: Giving Oneself Up
• Chapter 17: God’s Representative Establishes Himself in the Center of the Worship of God and Claims New Conditions for It
• Chapter 18: Teaching by God’s Representative: Some Essential Features of Humans’ Relationship to God
• Chapter 19: Teaching by God’s Representative: The Audience is Close to God’s Reign
• Chapter 20: The Final Phase of the Enigmatic Way of God’s Representative: Preparative and Interpretive Scenes
• Chapter 21: The Final Phase of the Enigmatic Way of God’s Representative: He Is Handed over into the Hands of His Enemy
• Chapter 22: The Final Phase of the Enigmatic Way of God’s Representative: He Is Executed
• Chapter 23: The Final Phase of the Enigmatic Way of God’s Representative: God Confirms that He Was—and Is—His Representative
• Chapter 24: The Secondary Endings
• Chapter 25: The Gospel as a Whole
• Some Bibliographical Notes