Saint Mark Author:D. E. Nineham The Pelican Gospel Commentaries mark a new departure in Bible criticism. Former commentaries have usually been of two kinds -- either abstruse and academic, or over-simplified, fundamentalist, and out-of-date. These new paragraph-by-paragraph commentaries have been written by modern scholars who are in touch with contemporary Biblical theology a... more »nd also with the needs of the average layman. They relate the teachings of Christ to the twentieth century, in the light of the latest archaeological, historical and linguistic research.« less