Reading Mark: A Literary and Theological Commentary on the Second Gospel (Reading the New Testament Series)

Dowd examines the Gospel of Mark from lietarey and theological perspectives, suggesting what the text may have meant to its first-century audience of Gentile and Jewish Christians. Mark is a Greco-Romans biography of Jesus written in an apocalyptic mode. Its theology is based on the message of the prophet Isaiah - the proclamation of release from bondage and a march toward freedom along the "way of the Lord.