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Resources for the Book of Mark

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Introductions, Overviews & General Resources:

• Mark at Luther Seminary’s Bible Tutor. Study basics about Bible books, people, dates, places, and content, and take web-based self-tests. CD-ROM of Advanced Studies also available at their site.
• The Gospel of Mark: An Introduction for Preachers by William R.G. Loader, Murdoch University, Australia. (Mark in terms of the lectionary year.)
• The Gospel of Mark, Wikipedia.
• Introduction to the Book of Mark, New American Bible.
• The Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Outline by Professor Barry D. Smith, Atlantic Baptist University, in Religious Studies 1023: The New Testament and Its Context.
• Introduction to Mark, Dom Henry Wansbrough, detailed historical & literary introductory study.
• Gospel of Saint Mark from the Catholic Encyclopedia.
• Mark: Introduction, Argument and Outline by Daniel B. Wallace at the Biblical Studies Foundation.
• Introduction and Outline for Mark, by David Malick at the Biblical Studies Foundation.
• Introduction to Mark, B.W. Johnson, The People’s New Testament, 1891.
• “Mark in Year B: A Bibliography for Preachers of Mark’s Gospel,” David Schnasa Jacobsen, Waterloo Lutheran Seminary.
• “The Gospel of Mark,” from A Historical Introduction to the New Testament, Robert M. Grant, 1963. Full text at Religion Online.
• Bible Basics (Mark) by NetMinistries. (Very basic – includes .wav files with pronunciation of Biblical words)
• The World Wide Study Bible on the Gospel of Mark.
• Walking Through the Bible: Mark.
• Biblenotes summary: Mark.
• “The Gospel of Mark,” in An Introduction to the New Testament by Richard Heard. Full text of book online at Religion Online.

 

Commentary, Exegesis, Studies, etc.:

• Mark, Geneva Study Bible, 1599.
• Mark, Matthew Henry Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1706.
• Mark, John Darby’s Synopsis of the New Testament.
• Mark, Wesley’s Notes, c 1760.
• Mark, Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871.
• Mark, People’s New Testament, 1891.
• Mark, Scofield Reference Notes, 1917.
• Mark, John Gill’s Exposition of the Bible.
• Mark, Robertson’s Word Pictures of the New Testament.
• The Earliest Gospel, Frederick C. Grant, 1943. Full text online at Religion Online.
• The Letter of Mark by Dwight Edwards at the Biblical Studies Foundation.
• A Textual Commentary on the Greek Gospels, vol 2, Mark, Wieland Willker.
• By Brian Stoffregen at CrossMarks:
  • A Daily Reading Guide to the Gospel of Mark
  • Six Session Study Guide to the Gospel of Mark
• The Gospel of Mark, textual commentary, Robert Nguyen Cramer, BibleTexts.com.
• Mark, Expository Notes, Dr. Thomas L. Constable, Dallas Theological Seminary, 2005 edition.
• Michael A. Turton’s Historical Commentary on the Gospel of Mark, “a complete verse-by-verse commentary on the Gospel of Mark, focusing on the historicity of people, places, events, and sayings in the world of the Gospel of Mark.“
• Free Bible Commentary, Mark and 1 & 2 Peter, Dr. Bob Utley, Professor of Hermeneutics, East Texas Baptist University.

Articles and Background:

“Stages of Faith and the Gospel of Mark,” James V. Zeitz, Spirituality Today, Winter 1984.

“Images of Jesus and the Christian Vocation in the Gospels of Mark and Matthew,” Mary Rose D’Angelo, Spirituality Today, Fall 1984.

“The Women of the Gospel of Mark and Contemporary Women’s Sprituality,” Mitzi Minor, Spirituality Today, Summer 1991.

Introduction to Jesus the Teacher: A Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation of Mark, Vernon K. Robbins, 1992.

“Reading Mark Ritually: Honor-Shame and the Ritual of Baptism,” Mark McVann, Semeia 67: Transformations, Passages, and Processes: Ritual Approaches to Biblical Text, 1994.

Introduction to New Boundaries in Old Territory: Forms and Social Rhetoric in Mark, David B. Gowler. New York: Peter Lang, 1994.

“Is There a Monkey in This Class?” Ole Davidsen, Semeia 71: Textual Determinacy, Part Two, 1995.

“Domestic Domains in the Gospel of Mark,” Katrina Poetker, Direction, 1995.

“Mark’s Domestic Domains,” response by Faith Weibe, Direction, 1995.

“On Mark’s Use of The Gospel of Thomas, Part 1,” and “Part 2,” by Stevan Davies, republished from Neotestamentica (1996) at Stevan Davies’ Gospel of Thomas website.

“Questions, Chreai, and Challenges to Honor. The Interface of Rhetoric and Culture in Mark’s Gospel.” Jerome H. Neyrey, Catholic Biblical Quarterly 60 (1998):657-81.

“The Gospel of Mark and Judaism,” Robert McFarlane in Gesher: The Journal of the Council of Christians and Jews, 1998.

“Disciples on Trial,” Susan R. Garrett, The Christian Century, 1998. Religion Online.

“Identification of the Bethany Youth in the Secret Gospel of Mark with other Figures Found in Mark and John,” Miles Fowler. Journal of Higher Criticism, 1998.

“Examples of Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation in Mark,” Dr. Vernon K. Robbins, at The Encyclopedia of Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation, 1999.

“Dare to Preach this Gospel,” William O’Brien, “Living the Word,” Sojourners Online, January/February 2000.

“The Various Endings of Mark,” vol 2b of A Textual Commentary on the Greek Gospels, Wieland Willker.

“Mark, John, and Answerability: Aspects of Interfluentiality between the Second and Fourth Gospels,” Paul N. Anderson, 2001.

“The Intertexture of Apocalyptic Discourse in the Gospel of Mark,” Vernon K. Robbins in The Intertexture of Apocalyptic Dicourse in the New Testament, ed. F Watson, 2002.

“Is Our Reading the Bible the Same as the Original Audience’s Hearing It? A Case Study in the Gospel of Mark,” Robert H Stein, The Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 2003.

“The Poetic Function and the Gospel in/of Mark: a Post-Canonical Reading,” George Aichele, 2003.

“The Rhetoric of the Characterization of Jesus as the Son of Man and Christ in Mark,” Paul Danove, Biblica Vol. 84(2003) 16-34.

“Recent Reflections on the Gospel according to Mark,” Sean P. Kealy, Biblical Theology Bulletin, 2005.

“Mark, The Gospel of Radical Transformation,” Jay Williams, Bible and Interpretation, 2008.

Bateman, Herbert W., IV, “Defining the Titles ‘Christ’ and ‘Son of God’ in Mark’s Narrative Presentation of Jesus,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 2007.
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Black, C. Clifton, “Mark as Historian of God’s Kingdom,” Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2009.
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Boyce, James L., “Hearing the Good News: The Message of the Kingdom in Mark,” Word & World, 2006.
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Danove, Paul, “The Narrative Function of Mark’s Characterization of God,” Novum Testamentum, 2001.
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Dewey, Joanna, “The Survival of Mark’s Gospel: A Good Story?” Journal of Biblical Literature, 2005.
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Harrington, Daniel J., “What’s New in Markan Studies?” Word & World, 2006.
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Hedrick, Charles, “Realism in Western Narrative and the Gospel of Mark: A Prolegomenon,” Journal of Biblical Literature, 2007.
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Kloppenborg, John S., “Evocatio Deorum and the Date of Mark,” Journal of Biblical Literature, 2005.
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Liew, Tat-Siong Benny, “Tyranny, Boundary and Might: Colonial Mimicry in Mark’s Gospel,” Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 1999.
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Malbon, Elizabeth Struthers, “Fallible Followers: Women and Men in the Gospel of Mark,” Semeia, 1983.
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Malbon, Elizabeth Struthers, “Narrative Christology and the Son of Man: What the Markan Jesus Says Instead,” Biblical Interpretation, 2003.
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Maloney, Linda, “Mark and Mystery,” Currents in Theology and Mission, 2004.
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Marcus, Joel, “Crucifixion as Parodic Exaltation,” Journal of Biblical Literature, 2006.
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Moloney, Francis J., “The Markan Story,” Word & World, 2006.
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Otey, Rush, “A Pilgrim’s Discovering Providence: Preaching Mark’s Gospel in Ordinary Time,” Journal for Preachers, 2006. (Year B)
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Riches, John K., “Conflicting Mythologies: Mythical Narrative in the Gospel of Mark,” Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 2001.
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Sellew, Philip, “Composition of Didactic Scenes in Mark’s Gospel,” Journal of Biblical Literature, 1989.
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Stein, Robert H., “Is Our Reading the Bible the Same As the Original Audience’s Hearing It? A Case Study in the Gospel of Mark,” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 2003.
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Voelz, James W., “The Greek of Codex Vaticanus in the Second Gospel and Marcan Greek,” Novum Testamentum, 2005.
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Watson, Francis, “The Social Function of Mark’s Secrecy Theme,” Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 1985.
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West, Audrey, “Preaching the Mysteries of the Reign of God,” Currents in Theology and Mission, 2005.
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Williams, Joel, “Does Mark’s Gospel Have an Outline?” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 2006.
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Wink, Walter, “The Education of the Apostles: Mark’s View of Human Transformation,” Religious Education, 1988.
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Reviews:

1999:

Broadhead, Edwin K., Naming Jesus, Titular Christology in the Gospel of Mark. Sheffield Academic Press, 1999. Reviews by Brook W.R. Pearson and C. Drew Smith in SBL’s Review of Biblical Literature.

Marcus, Joel, Mark 1 – 8: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. Doubleday, 1999. Review by Robert H. Gundry in SBL’s Review of Biblical Literature.

Schildgen, Brenda Deen, Power and Prejudice: The Reception of the Gospel of Mark. (Wayne State University Press, 1999) Review by Walter Wink in SBL’s Review of Biblical Literature.

2000:

Hanson, James S., The Endangered Promises: Conflict in Mark. Scholars Press, 2000. Review by Sharyn Dowd in SBL’s Review of Biblical Literature.

Macdonald, Dennis, The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark. Yale University Press, 2000. Reviews by Ronald F. Hock and Michael Gilmour in SBL’s Review of Biblical Literature.

Peterson, Dwight N., The Origins of Mark: The Markan Community in Current Debate. Brill, 2000. Review by Craig A Evans in SBL’s Review of Biblical Literature.

2001:

Broadhead, Edwin K., Mark. Sheffield Academic Press, 2001. Review by Elizabeth Struthers Malbon in SBL’s Review of Biblical Literature.

Decker, Rodney J., Temporal Deixis of the Greek Verb in the Gospel of Mark with Reference to Verbal Aspect. Peter Lang, 2001. Review by Robert Paul Seesengood in SBL’s Review of Biblical Literature.

Klumbies, Paul-Gerhard, Der Mythos bei Markus. DeGruyter, 2001. Review by Doublas Geyer in SBL’s Review of Biblical Literature.

Labahn, Michael and Andreas Schmidt, eds., Jesus, Mark and Q: The Teaching of Jesus and its Earliest Records. Sheffield Academic Press, 2001. Review by Russell S. Morton in SBL’s Review of Biblical Literature.

Levine, Amy-Jill and Marianne Blickenstaff, eds., A Feminist Companion to Mark. Sheffield Academic Press, 2001. Reviews by Stephen W. Felder and Barbara Reid in SBL’s Review of Biblical Literature.

Thurston, Bonnie Bowman, Preaching Mark. Fortress, 2001. Review by Kevin W. Larsen in SBL’s Review of Biblical Literature.

Witherington, Ben, The Gospel of Mark: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary. Eerdmans, 2001.

Review by Scott S. Elliott and Steve Patton in SBL’s Review of Biblical Literature.

Review by Hans F. Bayer, Trinity Journal, 2002.

2002:

Donahue, John R. and Daniel J. Harrington, The Gospel of Mark. The Liturgical Press, 2002.

Reviews by Eric Thurman and Erik Heen in SBL’s Review of Biblical Literature.

Review by Sharyn Dowd, in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2003.

Edwards, James, The Gospel According to Mark. Eerdmans, 2002. Reviews by Scott S. Elliott and I Brent Driggers in SBL’s Review of Biblical Literature.

France, R.T., The Gospel of Mark. Eerdmans, 2002.

Reviews by Albert L Lukaszewski and Steve Patton at SBL’s Review of Biblical Literature.

Review by Joel F Williams, Trinity Journal, 2003.

Hatina, Thomas R., In Search of a Context: The Function of Scripture in Mark’s Narrative. Sheffield Academic Press, 2002.

Review by Kenneth D. Litwak in SBL’s Review of Biblical Literature.

Review by Robert Herron, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society.

Malbon, Elizabeth Struthers, Hearing Mark: A Listener’s Guide. Trinity Press International, 2002. Review by Tat-siong Liew in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2003.

Moeser, Marion C., The Anecdote in Mark, the Classical World and the Rabbis. Sheffield Academic Press, 2002. Review by Douglas Geyer in SBL’s Review of Biblical Literature.

Moloney, Francis J., The Gospel of Mark: A Commentary. Hendrickson, 2002.

Review by Kevin W Larsen in The Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 2004.

Review by Heike Omerzu in Review of Biblical Literature, 2006.

Review by Graydon F. Snyder, Currents in Theology and Mission, 2005.

Neville, David J., Mark’s Gospel – Prior or Posterior: A Reappraisal of the Phenomenon of Order. Sheffield Academic Press, 2002. Review by Suzanna Watts Henderson in SBL’s Review of Biblical Literature.

Peabody, David B., Lamar Cope and Allan J. Mcnicol, eds., One Gospel from Two: Mark’s Use of Matthew and Luke: A Demonstration by the Research Team of the International Institute for Gospel Studies. Trinity Press International, 2002. Reviews by Ronald R. Clark and J. Samuel Subramanian in SBL’s Review of Biblical Literature.

Sabin, Marie Noonan, Reopening the Word: Reading Mark as Theology in the Context of Early Judaism. Oxford University Press, 2002.

Review by Karen A Barta in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2004.

Review by Gregg S Morrison, Review of Biblical Literature.

Vines, Michael E., The Problem of Markan Genre: The Gospel of Mark and the Jewish Novel. Society of Biblical Literature, 2002. Review by Douglas Geyer in SBL’s Review of Biblical Literature.

2003:

Croy, N. Clayton, The Mutilation of Mark’s Gospel. Abingdon, 2003.

Review by Graydon F. Snyder in Currents in Theology and Mission.

Review by Lincoln Blumell in SBL’s Review of Biblical Literature.

Dart, John, Decoding Mark. Trinity Press International, 2003. Reviews by Lincoln Blumell and Mark Schuler at SBL’s Review of Biblical Literature.

Incigneri, Brian J., The Gospel to the Romans: The Setting and Rhetoric of Mark’s Gospel. Brill, 2003. Reviewsby Dwight N Peterson, Michael Bird, and Zeba Crook, Review of Biblical Literature.

Shiner, Whitney, Proclaiming the Gospel: First-Century Performance of Mark. Trinity Press International, 2003. Review by Gregg Morrison, Review of Biblical Literature, 2005.

2004:

Burkett, Delber, Rethinking the Gospel Sources: From Proto-Mark to Mark. T & T Clark, 2004. Reviews by Douglas Geyer and David Peabody in SBL’s Review of Biblical Literature.

Bolt, Peter G., The Cross from a Distance: Atonement in Mark’s Gospel, Intervarsity Press, 2004. Review by Elliott Maloney, Review of Biblical Literature, 2006.

Bolt, Peter G., Jesus’ Defeat of Death: Persuading Mark’s Early Readers. Cambridge University Press, 2004. Review by William Campbell, Review of Biblical Literature, 2006.

Crossley, James G., The Date of Mark’s Gospel: Insight from the Law in Earliest Christianity. T&T Clark, 2004. Reviews by David DuToit and John Painter, Review of Biblical Literature, 2006.

Focant, Camille, L’évangile selon Marc. Cerf, 2004. Review by Sean Kealy in SBL’s Review of Biblical Literature.

Levine, Amy-Jill, ed., A Feminist Companion to Mark. Pilgrim, 2004. Review by Heike Omerzu in SBL’s Review of Biblical Literature.

Maloney, Elliott C., Jesus’ Urgent Message for Today: The Kingdom of God in Mark’s Gospel. Continuum, 2004.

Review by Robert Lewis in SBL’s Review of Biblical Literature.

Review by Frank J. Matera in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2004.

Miller, Susan, Women in Mark’s Gospel. T&T Clark, 2004. Review by Betsy Bauman-Martin, Review of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Moloney, Francis J., Mark: Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist. Hendrickson, 2004. Reviews by William Campbell and Heike Omerzu, Review of Biblical Literature, 2006.

Rhoads, David, Reading Mark, Engaging the Gospel. Fortress, 2004.

Reviewsby Ira Driggers, Joseph Verheyden and Sean Kealy, Review of Biblical Literature, 2005.

Review by Barbara E. Reid, Currents in Theology and Mission, 2005.

Roskam, Hendrika N., The Purpose of the Gospel of Mark in Its Historical and Social Context. Brill, 2004. Review by Zeba Crook, Review of Biblical Literature, 2006.

2005:

Sabin, Marie. The Gospel According to Mark. Liturgical Press, 2005. Review by Pieter J.J. Botha, Review of Biblical Literature, 2007.

2006:

Boring, M. Eugene, Mark: A Commentary. Westminster John Knox, 2006. Review by Darrell L. Bock, Review of Biblical Literature, 2007.

Foley, John Miles, Performing the Gospel: Orality, Memory and Mark: Essays Dedicated to Werner Kelber. Fortress, 2006. Review by Alan Kirk, Review of Biblical Literature, 2006.

Hatina, Thomas R., ed., Biblical Interpretation in Early Christian Gospels: Vol 1: The Gospel of Mark. T&T Clark, 2006. Review by David du Toit, Review of Biblical Literature, 2008.

Henderson, Suzanne Watts, Christology and Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark. Cambridge University Press, 2006. Review by W.R. Telford, Review of Biblical Literature, 2008.

Patella, Michael, Lord of the Cosmos: Mithras, Paul, and the Gospel of Mark. T&T Clark, 2006. Review by James G. Crossley, Review of Biblical Literature, 2007.

VanOyen, Geert and Tom Shepherd, eds., The Trial and Death of Jesus: Essays on the Passion Narrative in Mark. Peeters, 2006. Review by Adam D. Winn, Review of Biblical Literature, 2008.

2007:

Collins, Adela Yarbro, Mark: A Commentary. Fortress, 2007. Review by Edwin Broadhead, Review of Biblical Literature, 2008.

Driggers, Ira Brent, Following God through Mark: Theological Tension in the Second Gospel. Westminster John Knox, 2007. Review by Elliott Maloney, Review of Biblical Literature, 2008.

Fullmer, Paul M., Resurrection in mark’s Literary-Historical Perspective. T&T Clark, 2007. Review by John Dart, Review of Biblical Literature, 1008.

Kenney, Garrett C., Mark’s Gospel: Lectures and Lessons. University Press of America, 2007. Review by Tom Shepherd, Review of Biblical Literature, 2007.

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