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Christology in Mark’s Gospel:
Biblical Greek Vocabulary in Context
Contributors: J. R. Daniel Kirk, Sandra Huebenthal, Larry W. Hurtado, Chris Keith, and Adam Winn
Building Competency with Words Occurring 25 Times or More Miles V. Van Pelt with Katharine C. Van Pelt
Four Views
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The Gospel of Mark, widely assumed to be the earliest narrative of Jesus’s life and the least explicit in terms of Christology, has long served as a worktable for the discovery of Christian origins and developing theologies. Christology in Mark’s Gospel: Four Views brings together key voices in conversation in order to offer a clear entry point into early Christians’ understanding of Jesus’s identity: Sandra Huebenthal (Suspended Christology), Larry W. Hurtado (Mark’s Presentation of Jesus; with rejoinder by Chris Keith), J. R. Daniel Kirk (Narrative Christology of a Suffering King), and Adam Winn (Jesus as the YHWH of Israel in the Gospel of Mark). ANTHONY LE DONNE (PhD, Durham University) is professor of New Testament at United Theological Seminary. J. R. DANIEL KIRK (PhD, Duke University) is the pastoral director for San Francisco at the Newbigin House of Studies. ADAM WINN (PhD, Fuller Theological Seminary) is assistant professor at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor College of Christian Studies. SANDRA HUEBENTHAL (PhD, Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen/Frankfurt) is professor of exegesis and biblical theology at the University of Passau in Germany. LARRY W. HURTADO was Professor (Emeritus) of New Testament Language, Literature & Theology at the University of Edinburgh. CHRIS KEITH (PhD, University of Edinburgh) is research professor of New Testament and early Christianity at St. Mary’s University College, Twickenham, UK.
Biblical Greek Vocabulary in Context by Miles V. Van Pelt and Katharine C. Van Pelt is designed to reinforce a student’s basic Greek vocabulary by presenting words that occur twenty-five times or more in the context of the Greek New Testament. Van Pelt and Van Pelt collate all 513 of these Greek words into approximately 200 key biblical verses and/or verse fragments to help students practice reading them in their literary context and thus improve their Greek vocabulary retention. Rather than rote memorization, Van Pelt and Van Pelt’s approach teaches word meaning through each word’s naturally occurring context—the way people naturally learn languages. The book includes two primary sections: 1. The first section provides room for students to write their own glosses of the biblical verse and to parse as they feel necessary. An English translation is also provided, and any term that appears less than twenty-five times is glossed. 2. The second section of the book provides the same biblical verses from the first section but with minimal room to write glosses and parse and without an English translation for aid. The end of the book includes a Greek-English lexicon of all the words occurring twenty-five times or more in the Greek New Testament. MILES V. VAN PELT (PhD, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) is the Alan Hayes Belcher Jr. Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Languages, academic dean, and director of the Summer Institute for Biblical Languages at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi. He has been teaching the biblical languages and developing languages resource for over twenty-five years. KATHARINE C. VAN PELT (JD candidate, University of Mississippi School of Law) graduated from the University of Kentucky, Phi Beta Kappa, with a Bachelor of Arts in linguistics. In addition to Hebrew, Latin, and German, she has been studying Hellenistic and Classical Greek for over ten years.
