Gospel of Mark
Home > New Testament > Gospel of Mark Gospel of Mark At a Glance Gospel Genre: (4/5) **** Reliability of Dating: (3/5) *** Length of Text: Greek Original Language: Ancient Translations: Modern Translations: English Estimated Range of Dating: 65-80 A.D. Chronological List of Early Christian Writings Discuss this text on the Early Writings forum. Text Gospel of Mark: American Standard Version Gospel of Mark: King James Version Gospel of Mark: World English Bible Resources e-Catena: References to the New Testament in the Church Fathers Patristic References to Mark, Chapters 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 The Priority of Mark Alfred Loisy: Analysis of the Gospel Catechesis in Mark Edgar Goodspeed: The Gospel of Mark Catholic Encyclopedia: Gospel of Mark Offsite Links Gospel of Mark: Perseus NT (English/Greek/Latin) The Five Gospels Parallels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Thomas; English) Parallel Synoptic Table (Matthew, Mark, Luke; Greek) Mark / Thomas Parallels Mark's Good News: An EasyEnglish Commentary The Synoptic Problem (Defense of the Two-Source Hypothesis) The Synoptic Problem Homepage Gospel of Mark: NAB Introduction Gospel of Mark: Daniel Wallace's Introduction Servant of God: A Study of Mark 7Q5: The Earliest NT Papyrus?
An Introduction to the New Testament: The Gospel of Mark A Historical Introduction to the New Testament: The Gospel of Mark Windows into the World of Jesus: Studies in Mark's Gospel Crucified Son of Man or Mighty One? Mark's Chiastic Gospel Structure and the question of Jesus' identity Questions, Chreiai, and Honor Challenges: The Interface of Rhetoric and Culture in Mark's Gospel Mark 7:1-23 and the Historical Jesus The Heavenly Veil Torn: Mark's Cosmic "Inclusio" Dramatic Inconclusion: Irony and The Narrative Rhetoric of the Ending of Mark A Symbolic Approach to Mark 7 The Anatomy of Envy and the Gospel of Mark A Second Gospel: The Evolution of Mark The Bethsaida Gospel Gospels, the external evidence and dating The Gospel According to Mark: A Passion Narrative with an Extended Introduction Scripturalization in Mark's Crucifixion Narrative Books David M.
Rhoads, Mark as Story : An Introduction the the Narrative of a Gospel (Fortress Pr 1999). Dennis R. MacDonald, The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark (Yale Univ Pr 2000). Ben Witherington III, The Gospel of Mark : A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 2001). Burton L. Mack, Who Wrote the New Testament? : The Making of the Christian Myth (San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins, 1996), pp. 152-161. Raymond Edward Brown, An Introduction to the New Testament (New York: Doubleday, 1997), pp. 126-170. Udo Schnelle, translated by M. Eugene Boring, The History and Theology of the New Testament Writings (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998), pp. 197-216. Recommended Books for the Study of Early Christian Writings Information on the Gospel of Mark Eusebius quotes from Papias on the Gospel of Mark in Hist.
Eccl. iii. 39 as follows: For information on these points, we can merely refer our readers to the books themselves; but now, to the extracts already made, we shall add, as being a matter of primary importance, a tradition regarding Mark who wrote the Gospel, which he [Papias] has given in the following words: "And the presbyter said this. Mark having become the interpreter of Peter, wrote down accurately whatsoever he remembered. It was not, however, in exact order that he related the sayings or deeds of Christ. For he neither heard the Lord nor accompanied Him. But afterwards, as I said, he accompanied Peter, who accommodated his instructions to the necessities [of his hearers], but with no intention of giving a regular narrative of the Lord's sayings.
Wherefore Mark made no mistake in thus writing some things as he remembered them. For of one thing he took especial care, not to omit anything he had heard, and not to put anything fictitious into the statements." This is what is related by Papias regarding Mark. Irenaeus wrote (Against Heresies 3.1.1): "After their departure [of Peter and Paul from earth], Mark, the disciple and interpreter of Peter, did also hand down to us in writing what had been preached by Peter." Note that Irenaeus had read Papias, and thus Irenaeus doesn't provide any independent confirmation of the statement made by the earlier author. However, there are two other pieces of external evidence that may confirm that the author of the Gospel of Mark was a disciple of Peter.