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8 - The Gospel according to Mark

from Part II - The Gospels As Witnesses to Christ

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2021

By
Elizabeth E. Shively
Edited by
Stephen C. Barton  and
Todd Brewer
Stephen C. Barton
Affiliation:
University of Durham
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Summary

The Gospel of Mark unites ideas of christology and discipleship within a hermeneutical framework of Jewish apocalyptic. Mark’s story of Jesus, characterized by urgency, action and conflict, tells of the anointed warrior king who comes to establish his kingdom and liberate the oppressed from powers imperial and satanic. He does so, paradoxically, by submitting to death on a Roman cross, a death interpreted in the light of the scriptures as a ransom for many.

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Jewish apocalypticismanti-imperialismchristologyGospel of Markdiscipleship
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The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels , pp. 157 - 176
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

Anderson, J. C., and Moore, S. D., eds., Mark and Method: New Approaches in Biblical Studies (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1992)Google Scholar
Bolt, Peter G., Jesus’ Defeat of Death: Persuading Mark’s Early Readers SNTSMS 125 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003)Google Scholar
Botner, Max, Jesus Christ As the Son of David in the Gospel of Mark, SNTSMS 174 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019)Google Scholar
France, R. T., The Gospel of Mark, New International Greek Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002)Google Scholar
Garrett, Susan R., The Temptations of Jesus in Mark’s Gospel (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998)Google Scholar
Harrington, Daniel J., What Are They Saying about Mark? (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2005)Google Scholar
Henderson, Suzanne Watts, Christology and Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark, SNTSMS 135 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006)Google Scholar
Malbon, Elizabeth Struthers, In the Company of Jesus: Characters in Mark’s Gospel (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2000)Google Scholar
Moloney, Francis J., Mark: Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2006)Google Scholar
Rhoads, David, Dewey, Joanna and Michie, Donald, Mark As Story: An Introduction to the Narrative of a Gospel, 3rd ed. (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2012)Google Scholar
Shively, Elizabeth E. Apocalyptic Imagination in the Gospel of Mark: The Literary and Theological Role of Mark 3.22–30, BZNW 189 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012)Google Scholar

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