Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Approaching the Gospels
- Part II The Gospels As Witnesses to Christ
- 7 The Gospel according to Matthew
- 8 The Gospel according to Mark
- 9 The Gospel according to Luke
- 10 The Gospel according to John
- 11 Non-canonical Gospels as Witnesses to Christ
- 12 God and the Knowledge of God in the Gospels
- Part III The Afterlife of the Gospels
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion (continued from page iii)
- References
8 - The Gospel according to Mark
from Part II - The Gospels As Witnesses to Christ
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 August 2021
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Approaching the Gospels
- Part II The Gospels As Witnesses to Christ
- 7 The Gospel according to Matthew
- 8 The Gospel according to Mark
- 9 The Gospel according to Luke
- 10 The Gospel according to John
- 11 Non-canonical Gospels as Witnesses to Christ
- 12 God and the Knowledge of God in the Gospels
- Part III The Afterlife of the Gospels
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion (continued from page iii)
- References
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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- The Cambridge Companion to the Gospels , pp. 157 - 176Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint 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