'In the Company of Jesus'… Musings on Mark: Minor Markan Characters – Bartimaeus, the Blind Beggar 1 May 201930 Apr 2019 "Through the identification with Bartimaeus and subsequent minor characters, the reader is encouraged to move beyond faith in Jesus and his power toward a more faithful acceptance of the demands…
Atheism… The Weekly Roundup – 4.12.19 12 Apr 20198 Apr 2019 "Mark, wanting to make a theological point, locates the event in a place whose name is associated with casting out demons – the language, as Marcus points out, does kinda support this. This…
'In the Company of Jesus'… Musings on Mark: Minor Markan Characters – The Centurion at the Cross 7 Nov 201814 Nov 2018 In her excellent book In the Company of Jesus: Characters in Mark's Gospel,1 New Testament scholar Elizabeth Struthers Malbon uses the tools of narrative criticism2 to analyze the story we find in the…
'In the Company of Jesus'… Elizabeth Struthers Malbon: Minor Characters in Mark as “Narrative Punctuation” 25 Oct 201822 Oct 2018 Elizabeth Struthers Malbon, In the Company of Jesus: Characters in Mark's Gospel (WJK, 2000), 209. In addition to their significance in extending the continuum of responses to the Markan Jesus, minor…
Christian Scriptures… Evangelical Eisegesis: SJ Thomason, the Tabernacle, and the Trinity in the Old Testament 30 Sep 201825 Feb 2019 Few Christian doctrines are as bizarre as the doctrine of the Trinity. Most people have a vague understanding of what the doctrine entails but far fewer can articulate it without…
Characters in Mark… Musings on Mark: The Demise of John the Baptist 26 Sep 201821 Sep 2018 The story of the death of John the Baptist feels like a hiccup in the narrative flow of Mark's Gospel. In 6:6b-13 we read of Jesus sending out the Twelve…
Characters in Mark… Musings on Mark: Another Reason to Doubt Peter Was Behind Mark’s Gospel 12 Sep 201812 Sep 2018 In addition to my regular Bible reading schedule and my verse-by-verse translating of the Gospel of Mark, I've also been reading a Markan pericope a day each weekday. Today I…
'In the Company of Jesus'… Elizabeth Struthers Malbon: Women With Jesus to the End 6 Sep 201827 Aug 2018 Elizabeth Struthers Malbon, In the Company of Jesus: Characters in Mark's Gospel (Westminster John Knox Press, 2000), 60. Within the Markan story, only the women follow Jesus to the end. At…
'In the Company of Jesus'… Elizabeth Struthers Malbon: The Silence of the Women 4 Sep 201827 Aug 2018 Elizabeth Struthers Malbon, In the Company of Jesus: Characters in Mark's Gospel (Westminster John Knox Press, 2000), 64-65. Perhaps one's initial impression is of a certain irony to the women's silence:…
'The Gospel of Mark' (Sacra Pagina)… Donahue and Harrington: The Suffering Just One 20 Jul 201817 Jul 2018 John R. Donahue and Daniel J. Harrington, The Gospel of Mark, Sacra Pagina (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 2002), 33. Intertextually two very strong Old Testament themes merge in the Gospel…
