[B-Greek] Brief Notice of "Brief Commentary on Mark"
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Jan 6 06:35:40 EST 2004
My short translation-cum-commentary on Mark's gospel, announced originally
several months ago, is now complete, at least in its initial formulation.
My translation (into contemporary colloquial American English) is intended
not to replace major versions produced by scholarly committees that are
readily available but rather to highlight issues that I think the
evangelist meant to impress upon listeners (I assume that the gospel was
meant to be heard rather than read silently). My commentary focuses upon
what I see as distinctive in the Marcan perspective on Jesus and upon the
evangelist's literary strategies of presentation. Some of what I emphasize
does depend upon how the Greek text is understood, but my commentary is not
primarily an elucidation of the Greek text as such. The commentary is
accessible at my IOA website:
http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/Mark/
A French version prepared by Sylvie Chabert d' Hyères (to whom I am
grateful for urging me initially to produce my own commentary on Mark as
well as for her eloquent Gallic reformulation thereof) and accompanied by
the Alliance Biblique French version of Mark's gospel may be accessed at:
http://www.ifrance.com/bezae/Mark/m1/link.html
I should note that, while I welcome comments addressed to me off-list about
this commentary, I am NOT inviting on-list discussion of any matters raised
in it unless they focus upon understanding of the Greek text of Mark's
gospel.
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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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