Experiencing the Gospel of Mark

Bibliography and Resources

NOTE: Most of these books are available in the LTSG Bookstore at significant discount. You do not have to pay tax on required books, nor do you pay shipping charges. Clicking on the links on this page will bring you to Amazon. (Here's my 'fancy' listing of my favs.)

• The New Revised Standard Version Bible with Apocrypha (recommended: HarperCollins NRSV Study Bible or Zondervan NRSV Student Bible or The NRSV Access Bible
• NET Bible Nestle-Aland27 Diglot ( from Bible.org or as available in BibleWorks7 or Logos3) NOTE: The absolute best price for this book is in the LTSG Bookstore.
• Rhoads, David, Joanna Dewey, and Donald Michie. Mark as Story. An Introduction to the Narrative of a Gospel. Fortress, 1999. (NOTE: I am assuming that all you have actually already read this in the 1.205 Gospels course.)
• Mark and Method: New Approaches in Biblical Studies.. Edited by Janice Capel Anderson and Stephen D. Moore. Fortress, 2008.
• ONE book from Course Required Books - Part 2
• Note: there may also be occasional readings from other texts that may be found on reserve in the LTSG library or on the Internet

• >> Barta, Karen A. Gospel of Mark. Glazier, 1988. Spirituality (OOP)
• Cárdenas Pallares, José. A Poor Man Called Jesus: Reflections on the Gospel of Mark. Orbis, 1986.  Liberation (OOP)
• Clévenot, Michel. Materialist Approaches to the Bible. Orbis, 1985. (OOP)
• Dowd, Sharyn Echols. Reading Mark: A Literary and Theological Commentary on the Second Gospel. Smyth & Helwys, 2000.
• >> Fowler, Robert Let the Reader Understand: Reader-Response Criticism and the Gospel of Mark. Fortress, 1991. Reader-response (OOP)
• >> Horsley, Richard A. Hearing the Whole Story: The Politics of Plot in Mark's Gospel. Westminster John Knox, 2001. Socio-political, postcolonial, literary, liberation (OOP)
• >> Juel, Donald H. A Master of Surprise: Mark Interpreted. Fortress, 1994. Narrative/rhetorical
• >> Kermode, Frank. The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative. Harvard, 1979. Literary, narrative (deconstruction)
• Kingsbury, Jack Dean. Conflict in Mark: Jesus, Authorities, Disciples. AugsburgFortress, 1989. Literary
• Kinukawa, Hisako. Women and Jesus in Mark: A Japanese Feminist Perspective Wipf & Stock, 1994.
• Levine, Amy-Jill. A Feminist Companion to Mark. Pilgrim Press, 2004.
• Malbon, Elizabeth Struthers. In the Company of Jesus: Characters in Mark's Gospel. Westminster John Knox Press, 2000. Narrative
•  Maloney, Elliott C. Jesus' Urgent Message for Today: The Kingdom of God in Mark's Gospel. Continuum, 2004. Liberation
• >> Mitchell, Joan L. Beyond Fear and Silence: A Feminist-Literary Reading of Mark. Continuum, 2001.
• Moloney, Francis J. Mark: Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist. Hendrickson, 2004. Narrative
• Preaching Mark's Unsettling Messiah. Edited by Dave Bland and David Fleer. Chalice Press, 2006. Exegetical/Homiletical

• Myers, Ched. Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark’s Story of Jesus. 20th ed. Orbis Books, 2008.

• >> Robbins, Vernon K. Exploring the Texture of Texts: A Guide to Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation. Trinity Press, 1996.
• >> Shiner, Whitney. Proclaiming the Gospel: First-Century Performance of Mark. Trinity, 2003.
• >> Smith, Stephen H. A Lion with Wings. Sheffield , 1996. Narrative-critical

• Donahue, John and Daniel Harrington. The Gospel of Mark. Sacra Pagina. Glazier/Liturgical
  Press.
• France, R. T. The Gospel of Mark: New International Commentary on the Greek Testament. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2002.
• Hooker, Morna D. Gospel according to Saint Mark, The. Baker Academic, 2009.
• Juel, Donald H. Mark. Augsburg Commentary on the New Testament. Augsburg. 1990.
• Juel, Donald H. The Gospel of Mark. Interpreting Biblical Texts. Abingdon. 1999.
• Marcus, Joel. Mark 1-8 and Mark 9-16. Anchor Bible. Doubleday.
• Moloney, Francis J. The Gospel of Mark: A Commentary. Hendrickson. 2002.
• Williamson, LaMar. Mark: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching. Interpretation. Westminster/John Knox.

• Ross, Steve. Marked. Seabury, 2005
• Swanson, Richard W., Provoking the Gospel of Mark: A Storyteller's Commentary, Year B. Pilgrim Press, 2005.
• Walters, Carl. I, Mark: A Personal Encounter: Explorations in the Earliest Gospel. John Knox Press, 1980. (OOP)

Other books, websites, or lists of commentaries to check

• Euangelion Kata Markon
• The Gospel of Mark at NTGateway
• Matera, Frank. What Are They Saying About Mark? (from biblical times to ~1987)
• Harrington, Daniel. What Are They Saying About Mark? (from ~1987-2004)
• Bibliography for the Gospel of Mark by Rodney J. Decker (note that the commentaries he likes best tend to reflect a more 'conservative' perspective
• Best Commentaries 
• Word & World issue on Mark