Gospel of Mark

Verse-by-Verse Commentaries:

C. E. B. Cranfield, The Gospel According to Saint Mark, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1959. ***
David E. Garland, Mark (NIV Application Commentary), Zondervan, 1996.
Robert H. Gundry, Mark: A Commentary on His Apology for the Cross, Eerdmans, 1993. ***
Morna D. Hooker, The Gospel According to St. Mark (Black's), Hendrickson, 1993. ***1/2
Bastiaan M. F. van Iersel, Reading Mark, T & T Clark, 1997. ****
_______ Mark: A Reader-Response Commentary (JSNT Supplement Series, 164), Sheffield, 1999.****
William L. Lane, The Gospel of Mark (NICNT), Eerdmans, 1974. ****1/2
John Painter, Mark's Gospel: Worlds in Conflict, Routledge, 1997. ****

Monographs, Compilations, and Studies:

Austin M. Farrar, A Study in Saint Mark, Westminster, 1951.****
Robert M. Fowler, Let the Reader Understand: Reader-Response Criticism and the Gospel of Mark, Trinity Press, 1991.
Jerry Camery-Hoggatt, Irony in Mark's Gospel: Text and Subtext, Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Jack Dean Kingsbury, The Christology of Mark's Gospel, Fortress, 1983. ***1/2
________ Conflict in Mark, Fortress, 1990. ***
Elizabeth S. Malbon, Narrative Space and Mythic Meaning in Mark , London: JSOT Press, 1991.****
________ In the Company of Jesus: Characters in Mark's Gospel, Westminster John Knox, 2000.
Joel Marcus, The Way of the Lord: Christological Interpretation of the Old Testament in Mark, T & T Clark, 1999.
Ulrich Mauser, Christ in the Wilderness: The Wilderness Theme in the Second Gospel and its Basis in the Biblical Tradition
____ (Studies in Biblical Theology, 39), Alec R. Allenson Inc, 1963.****
David M. Rhoads and Donald M. Michie, Mark As Story: An Introduction to the Narrative of a Gospel, Fortress, 1982. ****
Stephen H. Smith, A Lion with Wings: A Narrative-Critical Approach to Mark's Gospel, Sheffield Academic, 1997.****
Ned B. Stonehouse, The Witness of Matthew and Mark to Christ, Eerdmans, 1958.
Ricky E. Watts, Isaiah’s New Exodus in Mark, Baker, 2000.****

Articles and Essays:

James T. Dennison Jr., "The Gospel of Mark from Beginning to End," Kerux 9 (Dec 1994): 3-10.
________ "The Unnamed Woman and Jesus," Kerux 10 (Sept 1995): 41-47.
Peter F. Ellis, "Patterns and Structures of Mark's Gospel" in Biblical Studies in Contemporary Thought [ed. Miriam Ward],
____ Trinity College Biblical Institute, 1975: 88-103.
Elizabeth S. Malbon, "The Beginning of a Narrative Commentary on the Gospel of Mark" in Society of Biblical Literature:
____1996 Seminar Papers [ed. E. Lovering, Jr.], SBL, 1997.****
________ "The Christology of Mark's Gospel" in Who Do You Say that I Am? Essays in Christology [ed. M. A. Powell and
____D. R. Bauer], Westminster John Knox, 1999
M. Philip Scott, "Chiastic Structure: A Key to the Interpretation of Mark's Gsopel," Biblical Theology Bulletin 15 (1985): 17-26.
Geoffrey Smith, "A Closer Look At The Widow’s Offering: Mark 12:41-44," JETS 40 (1997): 27-36.
Geerhardus Vos, "Christ's Deliberate Work (Mark 10:45)" in Grace and Glory, Banner of Truth, 1994: 242-256.

Further Reading:

Commentaries:

Craig A. Evans, Mark 8:27-16:20 (Word, 34B), Word Books, 2000.
Robert A. Guelich, Mark 1-8:26 (Word), Nelson-Word, 1989.
Pheme Perkins, "The Gospel of Mark" in New Interpreter's Bible, Abingdon, 1995.
Eduard Schweizer, The Good News According to Mark, Westminster John Knox, 1970.

Monographs:

Ernest Best, The Temptation & the Passion: The Markan Soteriology, Cambridge University Press, 1990.
________ Mark: The Gospel as Story, T & T Clark, 1989.
________ Following Jesus: Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark (JSNT Supplement Series), Cornell University Press, 1982.
Edwin K. Broadhead, Prophet, Son, Messiah: Narrative Form and Function in Mark 14-16, JSOT Press, 1994.
________ Teaching With Authority: Miracles & Christology in the Gospel of Mark, Sheffield, 1992.
________ Naming Jesus: Titular Christology in the Gospel of Mark, Sheffield, 1999.
Sharyn Dowd, Reading Mark : A Literary And Theological Commentary On The Second Gospel (Reading The New Testament Series),
____Smyth & Helwys, 2000.
Christopher F. Evans, The Beginning of the Gospel: Four Lectures on St. Mark's Gospel , SPCK, 1968.
John L. Hill, Outline Studies in Mark, Cokesbury Press, 1955.
Morna D. Hooker, Son of Man in Mark, SPCK, 1967.***1/2
Howard Clark Kee, Community of the New Age: Studies in Mark's Gospel, Mercer University Press, 1983.
Scaria Kuthirakkattel, The Beginning of Jesus' Ministry According to Mark's Gospel (1, 14-3, 6): A Redaction Critical Study (Analecta Biblica),
_____Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 1990.
Ralph P. Martin, Mark: Evangelist and Theologian, Zondervan, 1986. ***
Innocent Uhuegbu Olekamma, The Healing of Blind Bartimaeus (Mk 10,46-52) in the Markan Context: Two Ways of Asking (Europäische
_____Hochschulschriften, Reihe 23: Theologie, 672), Peter Lang, 1999.
Robert S. Reid, Preaching Mark, Chalice Press, 1999.
Tom Shepherd, Markan Sandwich Stories (Andrews University Seminary Doctoral Dissertation Series, 18), Andrews University Press,
____1993.
Jesper Svartvik, Mark And Mission: Mk 7:1-23 In Its Narrative And Historical Contexts (Coniectanea Biblica: New Testament Series, 32),
____Almqvist & Wiksell, 2000.
Joel F. Williams, Other Followers of Jesus: Minor Characters as Major Figures in Mark's Gospel (JSNT Supplement Series, 102)
____Sheffield Academic, 1994.***

Articles:

T. E. Boomershine and G. L. Bartholomew, "The Narrative Technique of Mark 16:8," JBL 100 (1981): 213-223.
Ardel B. Caneday, "He Wrote in Parables and Riddles: Mark's Gospel as a Literary Reproduction of Jesus' Teaching Method," Didaskalia 10
____(1999): 35-67.
R. Alan Culpepper, "Mark 10:50: Why Mention the Garment?" JBL 101 (1982): 131-132.
Frederick W. Danker, "The Literary Unity of Mark 14:1-25," JBL 85 (1966): 467-472.
Joanna Dewey, "The Literary Structure of the Controversy Stories in Mark 2:1-3:6." JBL 92 (1973): 394-401.
J. D. G. Dunn, "The Messianic Secret in Mark," Tyndale Bulletin 21 (1970): 92-117.
James R. Edwards, "The Baptism of Jesus According to the Gospel of Mark," JETS 34 (1991): 43-57.
B. Dale Ellenburg, "A Review of Selected Narrative-Critical Conventions in Mark's Use of Miracle Material," JETS 38 (1995): 171-180.
James Hanson, "The Disciples in Mark's Gospel: Beyond the Pastoral/Polemical Debate," Horizons in Biblical Theology 20 (1998): 128-155.
David J. Hawkin, "The Incomprehension of the Disciples in the Marcan Redaction," JBL 91 (1972): 491-500.
Andrew T. Lincoln, "The Promise and the Failure: Mark 16:7,8," JBL 108 (1989): 283-300.
Elizabeth Struthers Malbon, "The Jesus of Mark and the Sea of Galilee," JBL 103 (1984): 363-377.
________ "The Jewish Leaders in the Gospel of Mark: A Literary Study of Marcan Characterization," JBL 108 (1989): 259-281.
Joel Marcus, "Mark 4:10-12 and Marcan Epistemology," JBL 103 (1984): 557-574.
Foster R. McCurley Jr., " 'And After Six Days' (Mark 9:2): A Semitic Literary Device," JBL 93 (1974): 67-81.
Richard T. Mead, "The Healing of the Paralytic: A Unit?" JBL 80 (1961): 348-354.
Eduard Schweizer, "The Son of Man," JBL 79 (1960): 119-129.
Robin Scroggs and Kent I. Groff, "Baptism in Mark: Dying and Rising with Christ," JBL 92 (1973): 531-548.
Philip Sellew, "Composition of Didactic Scenes in Mark's Gospel," JBL 108 (1989): 613-634.
Charles W. F. Smith, "No Time For Figs," JBL 79 (1960): 315-327.
Joel F. Williams, "Literary Approaches to the End of Mark's Gospel," JETS 42 (1999): 21-35.

Peter Bolt, " '...With a View to the Forgiveness of Sins': Jesus and Forgiveness in Mark's Gospel," Reformed Theological Review 57 (1998): 53-69.
Paul Danove, "The Narrative Rhetoric of Mark's Ambiguous Characterization of the Disciples," JSNT 70 (1998): 21-38.
Narry F. Santos, "The Paradox of Authority and Servanthood in the Gospel of Mark," Bibliotheca Sacra 154 (1997): 452-460.
Ethel E. Wallis, "Mark's Goal-Oriented Plot Structure," Journal of Translation and Textlinguistics 10 (1998): 30-46.

Pieter J. J. Botha, "Mark's Story of Jesus and the Search for Virtue" in The Rhetorical Analysis of Scripture (ed. S. E. Porter, et al), 1997: 156-184.

Keith D. Dyer, The Prophecy on the Mount: Mark 13 and the Gathering of the New Community (International Theological Studies, Contributions
____of Baptist Scholars, 2), Peter Lang, 1998.

Vernon K. Robbins and David B. Gowler (eds.), New Boundaries in Old Territory: Form and Social Rhetoric in Mark (Emory Studies
____in Early Christianity, 3), Peter Lang, 1994.