[B-Greek] "Brief Commentary/Mark"
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Mar 11 06:31:12 EST 2003
For what it's worth, and despite the fact that it's no farther along than
it is,I'm announcing that the first four chapters of my "Brief Commentary
on the Gospel of Mark" are now accessible at my own web-site:
http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/Mark/
For any interested Francophiles, a French version of it is being prepared
and made available by Mme. Chabert at her Codex Bezae site
(http://www.ifrance.com/bezae/):
http://www.ifrance.com/bezae/m1/link.html
Mme. Chabert has also posted a French version of Jonathan Robie's "Little
Greek" beginning Koine Greek lessons:
http://www.ifrance.com/bezae/
My commentary is idiosyncratic in that I don't even claim to attempt an
answer to all the questions about the text of Mark that readers of the
Greek original or of a translation may raise; my focus is fundamentally on
the distinctive literary features of Mark's gospel, i.e., on the HOW of
Mark's story-telling AS proclamation. I have formulated it as footnotes to
my own attempt at an idiomatic translation into contemporary English--an
attempt, that is, to express what I think the evangelist would say if he
were writing it in English today (and I'm well aware that this is to a
considerable degree a matter of personal judgment); it is certainly not a
version intended to compete with other versions, but rather to to be a
vehicle upon which to pin my comments on how the evangelist seems to me to
be addressing the reader/listener who is directly confronted with Mark's
story.
I intend this as an announcement only, not to evoke any on-list discussion
of what a commentary should be; on the other hand, while I don't want to
become involved in any defense of my perspective, I would welcome off-list
feedback and particularly information about errors in my pages.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
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