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The First Commentary on Mark - An Annotated Translation (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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The First Commentary on Mark - An Annotated Translation (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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This book is the first English translation of a text that Michael
Cahill identifies as the first formal commentary on Mark's Gospel.
Thought to have been written by an early seventh-century abbot, the
commentary was for almost 1000 years attributed to St. Jerome and
as such exercised incalculable influence on subsequent commentary.
St. Thomas Aquinas drew on it freely in his Catena Aurea, for
example, as did the highly influential Counter-Reformation
commentary of Cornelius a Lapide. Renaissance scholarship demoted
the work to the pseudepigrapha of Jerome and it clearly lost status
as a result. However, the contemporary recovery of interest in the
commentary tradition ensures a welcome for the publication of this
translation. Irrespective of authorship, the text is important in
the history of biblical interpretation--it is the first commentary
on Mark, and has had wide influence in the Latin west. It is
written in the allegorical style, and attempts to provide an
application of the gospel text to the practice of Christian
discipleship. It is characterized by the use of other biblical
texts, and through the use of bold face and italics in the
translation, the reader is able to see the extent of quotation,
paraphrase, and allusion. The extensive notes are designed to
provide information on source material and on the author's
technique. As the first Markan commentary this text holds a unique
place in the history of biblical exegesis. This translation will
make it available to scholars who do not read Latin, and will serve
as a useful introduction to early and medieval Bible commentary,
both in format and content.
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