MARK BY THE BOOK

A New Multidirectional Method for Understanding the Synoptic Gospels

P. W. SMUTS

P. W. Smuts advocates a “multi-directional” hermeneutic to the Synoptic Gospels—downwards, sideways, backwards, and forwards—using the Gospel of Mark to illustrate this approach.* This model compels readers to interpret the gospels against the broader sweep of redemptive history.

 

“Dr. Smuts has clearly immersed himself in Mark not as an isolated text but as part of God’s whole Bible addressed to God’s whole people, and here is the fruit of his study: informed, accessible, enthusiastic, and pastoral.”

—Dan McCartney, Professor of New Testament Interpretation, Redeemer Theological Seminary, Dallas

“A wise and full-orbed approach to interpreting the Synoptic Gospels.”

—Dennis E. Johnson, Ph.D., Professor of Practical Theology, Westminster Seminary California

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*The downwards direction focuses on the immediate literary context of the particular text. The sideways direction focuses on parallels to that text in the other Synoptic Gospels. The backwards direction focuses on the Old Testament background to the text. And the forwards direction focuses on relevant passages in the rest of the New Testament.