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Mark

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Mark

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A gospel written to help us experience what we will never fully understand.

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Abingdon Press

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0687058414

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Mark’s Gospel

History, Theology, Interpretation

By: C. Clifton Black

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Mark’s Gospel

History, Theology, Interpretation

By: C. Clifton Black

A culmination of contemporary scholarship on the Gospel of Mark. A preeminent scholar of the Gospel of Mark, C. Clifton Black has been studying and publishing on the Gospel for over thirty years. This new collection brings together his most pivotal work and fresh investigations to constitute an all-in-one compendium of contemporary Markan scholarship and exegesis. The essays included cover scriptural commentary, historical studies, literary analysis, theological argument, and pastoral considerations. Among other topics Black explores: • the Gospel’s provenance, authorship, and attribution • the significance of redaction criticism in Markan studies • recent approaches to the Gospel’s interpretation • literary and rhetorical analyses of the Gospel’s narrative • the kingdom of God and its revelation in Jesus • Mark’s theology of creation, suffering, and discipleship • the Gospel of Mark’s relationship to the Gospel of John and Paul’s letters • the passion in Mark as the Gospel’s recapitulation Scholars, advanced students, and clergy alike will consider this book an indispensable resource for understanding the foundational Gospel.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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146746094X

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9781467460941

Biblical Theology

Essays Exegetical, Cultural, and Homiletical

By: C. Clifton Black

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Biblical Theology

Essays Exegetical, Cultural, and Homiletical

By: C. Clifton Black

An essential collection of C. Clifton Black’s best essays on the theology of the New Testament Clift Black is well known and widely loved for his exegetical acuity, his theological seriousness, his pastoral kindness, and the most delightful sense of humor in the biblical studies guild. All these qualities are amply displayed in these thirty essays written across four decades of his career, including four essays that are published here for the first time. Biblical Theology: Essays Exegetical, Cultural, and Homiletical represents the fruit of a lifetime of studying, preaching, praying, training pastors, walking in the light, and laughing in the valley of the shadow of death. Black’s keen mind and pastoral heart make this volume a rich contribution to the field of biblical theology.

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406

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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1467468703

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9781467468701

The Lord's Prayer

By: C. Clifton Black

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The Lord's Prayer

By: C. Clifton Black

C. Clifton Black provides a thorough analysis of the most famous prayer in the Christian church, the Lords Prayer. He begins with an impressionist painting of how the ancients prayed during Jesus time in order to set the context for understanding the prayer he taught his disciples. Throughout the book, Black systematically interprets the rich meanings of each part of the Lords prayer. Additionally, he includes an overview of Christian thought on the Lords Prayer from early church mothers and fathers like Tertullian and Teresa of Avila to modern theologians like Karl Barth. Uniquely, this book is an academic study of the Lords Prayer with a focus on the rhetorical culture from which it developed as well as the theological, literary, and historical meanings of the prayer itself.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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1611648939

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9781611648935

The Rhetoric of the Gospel, Second Edition

Theological Artistry in the Gospels and Acts

By: C. Clifton Black

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The Rhetoric of the Gospel, Second Edition

Theological Artistry in the Gospels and Acts

By: C. Clifton Black

While most books on biblical rhetoric focus primarily on the epistles, this volume from prominent scholar C. Clifton Black considers the variety of rhetorical critical approaches now being applied to the Gospels (including Lukeâ€"Acts). This updated edition takes into account recent research since the first volume was published in 2001 and features two brand new chapters. Black provides an overview of the different forms of rhetorical criticism, with examples from the Gospel of John; studies of characterization in Matthew and Luke; an analysis of classical rhetorical criteria found in Mark and Lukeâ€"Acts; and an analysis of the rhetoric of the parables with implications for contemporary preaching.

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Presbyterian Publishing Corp

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1611643171

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9781611643176

Abingdon New Testament Commentaries: Mark

By: Prof. C. Clifton Black

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Abingdon New Testament Commentaries: Mark

By: Prof. C. Clifton Black

Mark’s genius lies, not in telling a story about Jesus, but in creating conditions under which the reader may experience the peculiar quality of God’s good news. The Evangelist hurries one along breathlessly, “immediately,” making sure that the reader lurches with the characters into one pothole after another. “What is this new teaching” that consorts with the flagrantly sinful, turning the pious homicidal, intimates into strangers, and mustard seeds into “the greatest of all ... shrubs”? Jesus’ closest adherents, the Twelve, are among the most muddled. Who can blame them? They ask for an obscure parable’s interpretation and receive an answer even more confounding. They are told to feed thousands with next to nothing. Their boat almost capsizes while their teacher sleeps. As they oar in rough waters, the teacher strides the waves intending to bypass them. Putting the reader in the same boat, Mark structures conversations with Jesus that make little sense, if any. The Twelve are craven, stupid, self-serving, and disobedient: meet the average Christian. Besides, “their hearts were hardened.” Who hardens hearts? God. Should not God’s Messiah lift the burdens of those following him? What kind of Christ heads to a cross, handing his disciples another for themselves. “Do you not yet understand?” from the Introduction

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Abingdon Press

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1426750196

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The Disciples According to Mark

Markan Redaction in Current Debate, Second Edition

By: C. Clifton Black

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The Disciples According to Mark

Markan Redaction in Current Debate, Second Edition

By: C. Clifton Black

Redaction criticism attempts to identify biblical authors' theological interests by examining their adaptation of sources. Focusing on representative studies of Jesus' disciples in the Gospel of Mark, this pioneering book by C. Clifton Black has become the standard evaluation of that method's exegetical reliability. Comprehensively reviewing recent scholarship, Black identifies three distinctive types of redaction criticism in Markan interpretation. He demonstrates that diverse redaction-critical interpretations of the disciples in Mark have bolstered rather than controlled scholarly presuppositions to a degree that impugns the method's reliability for interpreting Mark. The book concludes by assessing redaction criticism's usefulness and offering a more balanced approach to Mark's interpretation. This second edition includes a substantial, detailed afterword that revisits the book's primary issues, converses with its critics, and provides an update of Markan scholarship over the past twenty-five years.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802827985

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A Three-Dimensional Jesus

An Introduction to the Synoptic Gospels

By: C. Clifton Black

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A Three-Dimensional Jesus

An Introduction to the Synoptic Gospels

By: C. Clifton Black

In A Three-Dimensional Jesus, Clifton Black offers a fresh, critically sympathetic reading of the New Testament’s first three Gospels: Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Intelligent and accessible, conversational and whimsical, this volume helps readers consider the questions that are basic to the Synoptic Gospels’ interpretation. Black addresses their literary genre and origins; portrayals of the figure of Jesus and other central characters; the relationships among these three books; and the social, political, and religious worlds from which they emerged and to which they were addressed. Individual chapters on each Gospel highlight their likely audiences, literary structures, and primary theological themes. Throughout, Black’s presentation is clear and engaging, making use of topical sidebars, charts, and illustrations as well as wit and good humor to draw readers into these Gospels’ interpretations. The volume also includes such original features as conversations with other well-established scholars, which help the reader appreciate a range of perspectives on topics like the historical Jesus and the Gospels’ depiction of women, and interviews of experts on these Gospels’ afterlife in the history of Christian thought, sacred music, fine art, and preaching. A Three-Dimensional Jesus is a concise, approachable study of the New Testament’s first three Gospels viewed from multiple angles—historical, sociological, literary, theological—with attention paid to their history of interpretation. In as much, Black invites readers to better understand and appreciate the Synoptics, while guiding them to learn even more.

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1646983483

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Book's by C. Clifton Black

Mark

Mark

Mark’s Gospel

Mark’s Gospel

Biblical Theology

Biblical Theology

The Lord's Prayer

The Lord's Prayer

The Rhetoric of the Gospel, Second Edition

The Rhetoric of the Gospel, Second Edition

Abingdon New Testament Commentaries: Mark

Abingdon New Testament Commentaries: Mark

The Disciples According to Mark

The Disciples According to Mark

A Three-Dimensional Jesus

A Three-Dimensional Jesus

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