Bibliography for the Gospel of Mark

This bibliography serves both NT811, Exegesis of Mark (a Grek exegesis course) and Bi816, Exposition of Mark (an English Bible exposition course). Course page (for both courses)

Recommended commentaries [usually exegetical and based on the Greek text] are marked.* Periodical literature is not included here. The best listings of those resources is to be found in the WBC vols. (s.v. Guelich and Evans) and in Neirynck; see also the ATLA database (online through the Seminary library--internal use only).

Anderson, Hugh. The Gospel of Mark. New Century Bible. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1976.

Barbieri, Louis. Mark. Moody Gospel Commentary. Chicago: Moody Press, 1995.

Barnes, Albert. Matthew and Mark. In Notes on the New Testament. London: Blackie & Son, 1884–85. Reprint, Grand Rapids: Baker, 1983. 9:328–400.

Best, Ernest. Disciples and Discipleship: Studies in the Gospel According to Mark. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1986.

Black, C. Clifton. Mark: Images of an Apostolic Interpreter. Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1994. Reprint. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001.

Bock, Darrell L. Blasphemy and Exaltation in Judaism: The Charge against Jesus in Mark 14:53-65. Tubingen: Johr/Siebeck, 1998. Reprint. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000.

Bock, Darrell L. "The Gospel of Mark." In Matthew and Mark, Cornerstone Biblical Commentary 11. Edited by P. Comfort, 391-560. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale, 2005.

Bolt, Peter G. The Cross from a Distance: Atonement in Mark's Gospel. NSBT 18. Downers Grove, IVP, 2004.

Bratcher, Robert G., and Eugene A. Nida. A Translator’s Handbook on the Gospel of Mark. London: United Bible Societies, 1961.

Broadhead, Edwin K. Teaching with Authority: Miracles and Christology in the Gospel of Mark. JSNTSup, 74. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1992.

Brooks, James A. Mark. New American Commentary, 23. Nashville: Broadman and Holman, 1991.*

Bruce, Alexander Balmain. The Synoptic Gospels. In The Expositor’s Greek Testament. Edited by W. Robertson Nicoll. Reprint, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1980. 1:341–457.

Burdick, Donald W. Mark. In The Wycliffe Bible Commentary. Chicago: Moody, 1962. 987–1026.

Clarke, W. N. Mark. In An American Commentary on the New Testament. Ed. Alvah Hovey. Valley Forge: Judson, 1881. 2:5–261.

Cole, Alan. The Gospel According to St. Mark. Tyndale New Testament Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1961.

Cook, F. C. Matthew to Luke. In The Bible Commentary, 7:199–308. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1871–1881. Reprint, Grand Rapids: Baker, 1981.

Cook, John G. The Structure and Persuasive Power of Mark: A Linguistic Approach. SBL Semeia Studies. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995.

Cranfield, C. E. B. The Gospel According to Mark. The Cambridge Greek Testament. 2d ed. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1963.*

Decker, Rodney J. Temporal Deixis of the Greek Verb in the Gospel of Mark with Reference to Verbal Aspect. Studies in Biblical Greek, 10. New York/Bern: Peter Lang, 2001.

Doudna, John C. The Greek of the Gospel of Mark. SBL Monograph Series, 12. Philadelphia: SBL, 1961.

Earle, Ralph. Mark. In The Biblical Expositor. Edited by Carl F. H. Henry, 857–888. Philadelphia: Holman, 1960.

Edwards, James R. The Gospel According to Mark. Pillar NT Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002.*

Elliott, J. K. The Language and Style of the Gospel of Mark: An Edition of C. H. Turner’s ‘Notes on Markan Usage’ Together with Other Comparable Studies. NovTestSupp, 71. Leiden/New York: Brill, 1993.

Evans, Craig. Mark 8:27–16:20. Word Biblical Commentary, 34B. Nashville: Nelson, 2001. [For vol. 34A, see Guelick.]

France, R. T. The Gospel of Mark. NIGTC. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002.*

Garland, David E. Mark. NIV Application Commentary. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996.

Garrett, Susan R. The Temptations of Jesus in Mark's Gospel. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.

Grassmick, John D. Mark. In The Bible Knowledge Commentary. Edited by John F. Walvoord & Roy B. Zuck, 2:95–197. Wheaton: Victor Books, 1983.*

Guelick, Robert A. Mark 1–8:26. Word Biblical Commentary, 34A. Dallas: Word, 1989. [For vol. 34B, see Evans.]

Gundry, Robert H. Mark: A Commentary on His Apology for the Cross.  Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993.*

Hengel, Martin. Studies in the Gospel of Mark. Translated by J. Bowden. London: SCM, 1985.

Hiebert, D. Edmond. Mark: A Portrait of the Servant. Chicago: Moody, 1974.

Hooker, Morna D. The Gospel According to Saint Mark. Black’s NT Commentary. London: A. C. Black, 1991. Reprint. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, n.d.

Hort, A. F. The Gospel According to St. Mark. In Expository and Exegetical Studies. Cambridge: University Press, n.d. Reprint, Minneapolis: Klock & Klock, 1980.

Hurtado, Larry W. Mark. New International Biblical Commentary. 2d ed. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1989.

Lane, William L. The Gospel of Mark. The New International Commentary on the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1974.*

Lange, John Peter. Mark and Luke. In Lange’s Commentary on the Holy Scriptures. Translated and edited by Philip Schaff, 16:1–167. Reprint. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1960.

Maloney, Elliott C. Semitic Interference in Marcan Syntax. SBL diss. series 51. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1981.

Mann, C. S. Mark. Anchor Bible 27.New York: Doubleday, 1986.

Marcus, Joel. Mark 1–8. Anchor Bible, 27. New York: Doubleday, 2000.

Marcus, Joel. The Way of the Lord: Christological Exegesis of the Old Testament in the Gospel of Mark. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1992.

Marxsen, Willi. Mark the Evangelist: Studies on the Redaction History of the Gospel. Transl. J. Boyce, et al. Nashville: Abingdon, 1969.

Meyer, H. A. W. Gospels of Mark and Luke. In Meyer’s Commentary on the New Testament. Edited by M. B. Riddle, 2:1–213. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1883. Reprint, Winona Lake: Alpha, 1979.

Moloney, Francis J. The Gospel of Mark: A Commentary. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2002.

Moloney, Francis J. Mark: Storyteller, Interpreter, Evangelist. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2004.

Neirynck, F., ed. The Gospel of Mark: A Cumulative Bibliography, 1950–1990. Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, 102. Leuven, Belgium: Leuven Univ. Press, 1992.

Orton, David E., ed. The Composition of Mark’s Gospel: Selected Studies from Novum Testamentum. Readers in Biblical Studies, 3. Leiden: Brill, 1999.

Plummer, Alfred. The Gospel According to St. Mark. Cambridge Greek Testament, 1914. Reprint, Grand Rapids: Baker, 1982.*

Rhoads, David, Joanna Dewey, and Donald Michie. Mark as Story: An Introduction to the Narrative of a Gospel. 2d ed. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999.

Robertson, A. T. Making Good in the Ministry. Old Tappan, NJ: Revell, 1918. Reprint, Grand Rapids: Baker, 1976.

Schweizer, Eduard. The Good News According to Mark. Transl. D. Madvig. Atlanta: John Knox, 1970.

Swete, Henry Barclay. The Gospel According to St Mark: The Greek Text with Introduction Notes and Indices. 3d ed. London: Macmillan, 1927.

Swift, C. E. Graham. Mark. In The New Bible Commentary: Revised. Edited by D. Guthrie & J. A. Motyer, 851–886. London: IVP, 1970. Reprint, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1981.

Taylor, Vincent. The Gospel According to St. Mark. New York, 1966. Reprint, Grand Rapids: Baker, 1981.*

Watts, Rikki E. Isaiah’s New Exodus in Mark. WUNT, 2d series, 88. Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck, 1997. Reprint. Biblical Studies Library. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000.

Wessel, Walter W. Mark. In The Expositor’s Bible Commentary. Edited by Frank E. Gaebelein, 8:601–793. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1984.

Witherington, Ben III. The Gospel of Mark: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001.


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