Mark, Memory and Jesus

I can best describe as a book that is truly multum in parvo. One of the endorsers wrote that this is a book that ‘everyone will want to read’ and it ‘is González at his best.’ I could not agree more with this observation. Even we scholars need to read books that are both informed and readable at the same time! The Bible in the Early Church is a welcome option for introductory courses on the Bible in schools and universities. However, this modest but meaty volume should also be seriously considered as a guide for lay people in various parochial contexts. In this reviewer’s opinion, it is simply one of the clearest available explanations of the role that the ‘Christian Bible’ played in both the church’s earliest and also later stages.