Morna D. Hooker

Mark

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“In this new commentary on Mark, Beavis focuses on the story told by the evangelist and what it would have meant for its earliest hearers. Building on her previous work on the Gospel, she concentrates on the 'narrative flow' as she traces the way in which Mark's story develops as a story in five acts. Students just beginning their exploration of the Gospel will find this commentary especially useful, but every reader is certain to find in it something new and illuminating.”

Paul and Union with Christ

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Building on an extensive and careful study of every passage in the Pauline corpus pertaining to union with Christ, Constantine Campbell demonstrates the theme’s important role in Paul’s theology—a role he describes as being that of the ‘webbing’ that holds the theology together. His book is a helpful reminder of how essential this idea is for our understanding of Paul.”

Resurrecting Interpretation

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“In this thought-provoking analysis, Simon Perry submits the work of biblical interpreters such as Bultmann, Fish, and Derrida to critical scrutiny, and finds them all wanting. The underlying problem, he suggests, is that they all rely on technology--i.e., they make use of scripture, rather than allowing themselves to be transformed by it. Since the great transformative event is the resurrection, Dr. Perry explores other approaches which begin from the reader's readiness to be transformed by the God encountered in scripture . . . demonstrating just how fruitful it can be to abandon one's presuppositions regarding the 'meaning' of the text, in order to allow it to confront us and to transform us.”

Uncle Peter's Story

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“Drawing on the tradition that Mark’s Gospel is based on the recollections of Peter, Toddy Hoare re-tells it as Uncle Peter’s Story. This means that readers’ minds are focused on the human response to the divine activity taking place in Jesus and experienced by Peter and Mark. This imaginative approach to the Bible may appeal not only to those unfamiliar with the Gospels, but also to those to whom they have become all too familiar.”