Leif E. Vaage

The Gospel of Mark in Context

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“One of the great pleasures of reading Santiago Guijarro’s work is its consistent transparency. . . . The result is to find oneself once more believing in the possibility of an honest conversation about the biblical text. In his hands, a ‘social-scientific reading’ becomes not the sterile application of a foregone conclusion but the occasion for meeting for the first time the embodied and socially embedded human beings both depicted in and responsible for the First Gospel.”