These commentaries are designed to help the reader of the Bible understand what the text says and what it means. The Introduction to each book gives a concise but thorough treatment of its authorship, date, original setting and purpose. Following a structural Analysis, the Commentary takes the book section by section, drawing out its main themes, and also comments on individual verses and problems of interpretation. Additional Notes provide fuller discussion of particular difficulties. In the new New Testament volumes, the commentary on each section of the text is structured under three headings: Context, Comment and Theology. The goal is to explain the true meaning of the Bible and make its message plain. Mark wrote his Gospel to explain why and how Jesus is the Messiah and the Son of God, who fulfils God's promises as he proclaims and embodies the coming of the kingdom of God. Mark emphasizes Jesus’ authority, and also his suffering and death, as God’s will for his messianic mission. Eckhard Schnabel’s commentary seeks to help today’s Christian disciples to communicate the significance of Jesus and the transforming power of the good news.
Author
Eckhard J. Schnabel (Ph.D., University of Aberdeen) is professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He has taught previously at Freie Theologische Akademie (Giessen, Germany), Wiedenest Bible College (Bergneustadt, Germany) and Asian Theological Seminary (Manila, Philippines). His books include Early Christian Mission (volumes 1 & 2) and Der erste Brief des Paulus an die Korinther, and he is the author of numerous articles, including "Luke" (with David W. Pao) in Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament and contributions in InterVarsity Press' Dictionary of Paul and His Letters and Dictionary of the Later New Testament & Its Developments.
