First Commentary on Mark

This book is the first English translation of a text that Michael Cahill identifies as the first formal commentary on Mark''s Gospel. Thought to have been written by an early seventh-century abbot, the commentary was for almost 1000 years attributed to St. Jerome and as such exercised incalculable influence on subsequent commentary. St. Thomas Aquinas drew on it freely in his Catena Aurea, for exa...