The Passion of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark

Donald Senior

Jan 1991 · Passion of Jesus Series Kitabu cha 2 · Liturgical Press

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Which came first: a coherent Passion story or the Gospel of Mark? Contemporary biblical scholarship is divided over this issue of how, exactly, the Passion story developed.

Whatever the shape of the story prior to Mark, it must have been imprinted with Christian experience as well as historical memory. Mark, in turn, felt free to retell and reinterpret that story for his own time and place. The Passion of Jesus was not only a story from the past but also, in the sufferings and hopes of the Christians of Mark's time, a living reality of the present.

The readers of this insightful work will find that the Passion of Jesus as told by Mark continues to hold meaning for the present.

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Donald Senior, CP, (1940-2022), was a professor of New Testament at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He served for twenty-three years as president of CTU and was its chancellor. He was a frequent lecturer and speaker throughout the United States and abroad and served on a variety of boards and commissions, including the Pontifical Biblical Commission. He published extensively on biblical topics, with numerous books and articles for both scholarly and popular audiences.