The Gospel According to Mark, Part One

Marie Noonan Sabin holds a PhD in English from Yale and an MA from Union Theological Seminary. She has taught English at Vassar, Barnard, and Douglass, and the Gospel of Mark at Bangor Theological Seminary. She is the author of Evolving Humanity and Biblical Wisdom: Reading Scripture through the Lens of Teilhard de Chardin and The Gospel According to Mark in the New Collegeville Bible Commentary series published by Liturgical Press. She is also the author of Reopening the Word: Reading Mark as Theology in the Context of Early Judaism (Oxford University Press).

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Welcome    7
     What materials will you use?    8
     How will you use these materials?    8
Map of Palestine    10
Lesson One (Introduction and Mark 1)    11
Lesson Two (Mark 2–3)    27
Lesson Three (Mark 4–5)    43
Lesson Four (Mark 6–7)    59
Lesson Five (Mark 8:1–9:32)    75
Praying with Your Group    90
Reflecting on Scripture    92