Bibliography for the Gospel of Mark

This bibliography serves both NT811, Exegesis of Mark and Bi816, Exposition of Mark. 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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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