Table of Contents

Introduction

The Present Volume
Time, Place and Author
Overview

Chapter 1 - Mark as a bios

From the Ancients to Votaw
The Eclipse of Biography
A Jewish Background?
The Return of Graeco-Roman Biography
The Last 25 Years

Chapter 2 - Ancient bioi

The Emergence of Biography
Biography and Morality
Character
Depictions of Death
Biographical Fact and Fiction
The Preserve of the Elite?
Sub-Groups and Sub-Types?

Chapter 3 - Mark the Biographer

Profile of a Biographer
Mark’s Christian Readers
Mark’s Structure
Pre-Markan Tradition
Authorial Voice

Chapter 4 - A Life of Jesus

Mark’s Opening Section (1:1-15)
Temptation and Resolve
Jesus in Galilee (1:16-8:21)
Miracles
Conflict
Identity
Teaching on Discipleship (8:22-10:52)
Jerusalem (11:1-13:44)
Imitation of Jesus
Jesus’ Appearance

Chapter 5 - Other Characters

Peripheral Characters
Markan Intercalations – a form of synkrisis?
“King Herod”
The High Priest/Pilate
The Twelve
“Minor Characters”

Chapter 6 - The Death of Jesus

A Slave’s Death
Setting up an Ending
Significance
Imitation
King of the Jews
Events Around Jesus’ Death
The Disappearance of the Body

Conclusion
Final Reflections

Automimesis

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