The iconography of the sarcophagus of Junius Bassus : neofitus iit ad Deum

In this book, Elizabeth Struthers Malbon recreates for contemporary readers the experience those ancient listeners shared. She helps us read - and more importantly hear - the Gospel more perceptively and more powerfully than ever before.
Writing with humor and in clear, non-scholarly language, she proceeds through the Gospel in narrative order, focusing on the themes emphasized in each Gospel section: kingdom, community, discipleship, suffering. In conclusion, she offers new interpretations of interrelated themes as they played out for Mark's listeners in the first century - and as they might for hearers today in the twenty-first.