Introduction -1

Introduction

I am very much indebted to SPCK for once again being willing to make available to a wider audience what started as a short series of Holy Week talks in Canterbury Cathedral (in 2010). The text has been transcribed from recordings and I have left most of it unaltered, though I have added details to fill out one or two points and occasionally to respond to questions asked after the lectures. It makes no claim whatsoever to reflect current scholarship on Mark’s Gospel, though I hope it is not completely at odds with such scholarship. My aim has been simply to offer suggestions for a slow reading of what notoriously feels like a rushed and packed text…