For For preachers, teachers and students wanting the church fathers' comments on Mark passage by passage; a reference anthology, not a modern commentary.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
3 of 5worth your time
For the researcher
4 of 5important
Difficulty
2 of 5moderate
The church fathers on the Gospel of Mark, passage by passage, edited by Oden and Christopher Hall for the ACCS.
How it proceeds
Philosophic1 of 5
Scriptural5 of 5
Experiential2 of 5
Sociological1 of 5
Historical3 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
The Mark volume of the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture, volume 2 of the New Testament series, published by InterVarsity Press in 1998 and edited by Oden, the general editor of the series, with Christopher A. Hall. Like the other volumes it sets excerpts from the church fathers beside the biblical text, passage by passage, with an overview of each section; among the writers it draws on are Augustine, Clement of Alexandria, Ephrem the Syrian and Cyril of Jerusalem. It was among the first volumes of the series to appear.
Mark (Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture)
ed. Thomas Oden
For For preachers, teachers and students wanting the church fathers' comments on Mark passage by passage; a reference anthology, not a modern commentary.
Should I read this?
The church fathers on the Gospel of Mark, passage by passage, edited by Oden and Christopher Hall for the ACCS.
How it proceeds
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
The Mark volume of the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture, volume 2 of the New Testament series, published by InterVarsity Press in 1998 and edited by Oden, the general editor of the series, with Christopher A. Hall. Like the other volumes it sets excerpts from the church fathers beside the biblical text, passage by passage, with an overview of each section; among the writers it draws on are Augustine, Clement of Alexandria, Ephrem the Syrian and Cyril of Jerusalem. It was among the first volumes of the series to appear.
Catalog ID
W.8QXWYD.2