Marie Noonan Sabin holds a PhD in English from Yale and an MA from Union Theological Seminary. She has taught English at Vassar, Barnard, and Douglass, and the Gospel of Mark at Bangor Theological Seminary. She is the author of Evolving Humanity and Biblical Wisdom: Reading Scripture through the Lens of Teilhard de Chardin and The Gospel According to Mark in the New Collegeville Bible Commentary series published by Liturgical Press. She is also the author of Reopening the Word: Reading Mark as Theology in the Context of Early Judaism (Oxford University Press).

• TABLE OF CONTENTSWelcome    7What materials will you use?    8How will you use these materials?    8Map of Palestine    10Lesson One (Introduction and Mark 1)    11Lesson Two (Mark 2–3)    27Lesson Three (Mark 4–5)    43Lesson Four (Mark 6–7)    59Lesson Five (Mark 8:1–9:32)    75Praying with Your Group    90Reflecting on Scripture    92