Robert H. Gundry is scholar-in-residence and professor emeritus of New Testament and Greek at Westmont College, Santa Barbara, California. His other books include A Survey of the New Testament, now in its fifth edition.
I. Howard Marshall
--University of Aberdeen
"No serious student of Mark dare neglect so important a book.... A
full commentary on the text of the Gospel of Mark, expounding it in
the light of a thesis which runs counter to much critical orthodoxy
-- namely, that the Gospel is a straightforward account of Jesus
with an evangelistic purpose and is designed to overcome the
scandal which the cross wrongly presented to unbelievers. The
author is skeptical of many of the methods and conclusions of
radical scholarship and argues for a presentation based on
historical fact transmitted through Peter's reminiscences to John
Mark. Based on the Greek text, the commentary contains an
extraordinary abundance of detail and discussion of other points of
view, yet it is written in an easy and readable style." Moisés
Silva
--Westminster Theological Seminary
"Gundry's independence and creativity show up throughout the work.
He seems incapable of writing a page that is not provocative, and
just the fact that his commentary includes numerous controversial
judgments will affect the scholarly discussion in a fairly profound
way. Yet this feature is not the result of haphazard, shotgun
attempts at being original. On the contrary, Gundry has managed to
present a coherent interpretation that obviously is based not on a
selective handling of the data but on exhaustive research.... I
hope that the volume will be widely recognized as the great success
that it is."
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