Gospel According to Mark

General & Introductory Studies on the Gospel According to Mark

• Online Resources for the Gospel of Mark - Peter Kirby
• Mark: Introduction, Argument, and Outline - Daniel B. Wallace.

Encyclopaedias, Dictionaries & Other References

• Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and Religious History, the Archaeology, Geography, and Natural History of the Bible (New York: Macmillan; London: Adam and Charles Black, 1899-1903), by T. K. Cheyne and J. Sutherland Black
  • Volume I (A-D)
  • Volume II (E-K)
  • Volume III (L-P)
  • Volume IV (Q-Z)
• The Jewish Encyclopedia (1906 edition)
• The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, ed. Philip Schaff.
• World Wide Encyclopedia of Christianity at CCEL

Commentaries

• Gould, Mark. ICC.
  • Gould, Ezra P. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to St. Mark.

Special Studies

• Ellenburg, B. Dale, "A Review of Selected Narrative-Critical Conventions in Mark's Use of Miracle Material," JETS 38, no. 2 (1995): 171-180.
• 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." JETS 46, No. 1 (2003): 63-78.
• Krantz, Jeffrey H. Crucified Son of Man or Mighty One? Mark's Chiastic Gospel Structure and the question of Jesus' identity.
• Danove, Paul. "The Rhetoric of the Characterization of Jesus as the Son of Man and Christ in Mark," Biblica 84 (2003): 16-34.
• Vernon K. Robbins, "The Present and Future of Rhetorical Analysis." In The Rhetorical Analysis of Scripture: Essays from the 1995 London Conference, 24-52. S. E. Porter and T. H. Olbricht, eds. Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series 146. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997.
• Jerome H. Neyrey,"Questions, Chreai, and Challenges to Honor. The Interface of Rhetoric and Culture in Mark's Gospel." Catholic Biblical Quarterly 60 (1998): 657-81.
• Yarbrough, Robert W. "The Date of Papias: A Reassessment." JETS 26, No. 2 (1983): 181-192.
• Baur, Ferdinand Christian. Das Markusevangelium: Nach seinem Ursprung und Charakter, nebst einem Anhang über das Evangelium Marcion’s.
• Meyer, Heinrich August Wilhelm. Kritisch exegetisches Handbuch über die Evangelien des Markus und Lukas.

Manuscripts

Mark 1

• Edwards, James R. "The Baptism of Jesus accordingn to the Gospel of Mark," JETS 34, no. 1 (1991): 43-58.
• Einführung in das Markus-Evangelium an Hand von Mk 1,21-28.
• Wretlind, Dennis O. "Jesus' Philosophy of Ministry: A Study of a Figure of Speech in Mark 1:38." JETS 20, no. 4 (1977): 321-324.

Mark 6

• 7Q5 = Mark 6.52-53 A Challenge For Textual Criticism?
  from JGRChJ 2 (2001–2005) 27-35.

Mark 7

• Jerome H. Neyrey, "A Symbolic Approach to Mark 7." Forum 4,3 (1988): 63-91.

Mark 8

• Dewey, Joanna. "Let them renounce themselves and take up their cross": a feminist reading of Mark 8:34 in Mark's social and narrative world." Published in Biblical Theology Bulletin, Fall, 2004.

Mark 10

• Stein, Robert H. "Is It Lawful for a Man to Divorce His Wife?" JETS 22, no. 2 (1979): 115-122.
• Herron, Robert W., Jr. "Mark's Jesus on Divorce: Mark 10:1-12 Reconsidered." JETS 25, No. 3 (1982): 273-282.

Mark 11

• Hellerman, Joseph H. "Challenging the Authority of Jesus: Mark 11:27-33 and Mediterranean Notations of honor and Shame." JETS 43, No. 2 (2000): 213-228.

Mark 12

• Smith, Geoffrey. "A Closer Look at the Widow's Offering: Mark 12:41-44," JETS 40, No. 1 (1997): 27-36.

Mark 13

• Vernon K. Robbins, "Rhetorical Ritual: Apocalyptic Discourse in Mark 13." In Vision and Persuasion: Rhetorical Dimensions of Apocalyptic Discourse. G. Carey and L. G. Bloomquist, eds. St. Louis, MO: Chalice Press, 1999: 95-121.

Mark 14

• Blaising, Craig A. "Gethsemane: A Prayer of Faith." JETS 22, no. 4 (1979): 333-344.

Mark 15

• Vernon K. Robbins, "The Reversed Contextualization of Psalm 22 in the Markan Crucifixion: A Socio-Rhetorical Analysis." In The Four Gospels 1992. Festschrift Frans Neirynck, Vol. 2. F. van Segbroeck, C. M. Tuckett, G. Van Belle, J. Verheyden, eds. BETL 100. Leuven: Leuven Univ. Press, 1992: 1161-1183.
• David Ulansey, "The Heavenly Veil Torn: Mark's Cosmic "Inclusio".
  Originally published in Journal of Biblical Literature 110:1 (Spring 1991) pp. 123-25.
• Jerome H. Neyrey, "'It Was Out of Envy That They Handed Jesus Over' (Mark 15:10): The Anatomy of Envy and the Gospel of Mark." Journal for the Study of the New Testament 69 (1998): 15-56.
• Dominic Rudman, "The Crucifixion as Chaoskampf: A New Reading of the Passion Narrative in the Synoptic Gospels," Biblica 84(2003): 102-107.

Mark 16

• Williams, Joel F. "Literary Approaches to the End of Mark's Gospel." JETS42, No. 1 (1999): 21-36.
• Amador, J. D. H. "Dramatic Inconclusion: Irony and the Narrative rhetoric of the Ending of Mark," Journal for the Study of the New Testament 57 (1995): 61-86.
• Bruce, F. F. "The End of the Second Gospel," The Evangelical Quarterly 17 (1945): 169-81.
• Thomas, John Christopher. "A Reconsideration of the Ending of Mark." JETS 26, No. 4 (1983): 407-420.

Journals

Blogs

ELists, Forums, Academic Societies

• B-Greek.
• Kata Markon.
• The Mark Group of the Society of Biblical Literature.

Bibliographies