Mark, Manuscripts, and Monotheism

Chris Keith is Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity and Director of the Centre for the Social-Scientific Study of the Bible at St. Mary's University College, Twickenham, UK.Dieter T. Roth is Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Post-Doctoral Fellow) at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionContributorsPART ONE: MARK’S GOSPELChapter One: “Is It as Bad as All That?”: The Misconception of Mark as a Gospel Film NoirHolly J. Carey, Point University, USAChapter Two: Early Christian Book Culture and the Emergence of the First Written GospelChris Keith, St Mary’s University, UKChapter Three: Jesus as God’s Chief Agent in Mark’s ChristologyPaul Owen, Montreat College, USAPART TWO: MANUSCRIPTS AND TEXTUAL CRITICISMChapter Four: Mark, Manuscripts, and Paragraphs: Sense-Unit Divisions in Mark 14–16Sean A. Adams, University of Edinburgh, UKChapter Five: From “Text-Critical Methodology” to “Manuscripts as Artefacts”: A Tribute to Larry W. HurtadoThomas J. Kraus, Independent ScholarChapter Six: Origen’s List of New Testament Books in Hom. Jos. 7.1: A Fresh LookMichael J. Kruger, Reformed Theological Seminary, USAChapter Seven: î45 as Early Christian Artifact: Considering Staurogram and Punctuation in the ManuscriptDieter T. Roth, Johannes Gutenberg—Universität Mainz, GermanyChapter Eight: î45 and Codex W in Mark RevisitedTommy Wasserman, Örebro School of Theology, SwedenPART THREE: MONOTHEISM AND EARLY JESUS-DEVOTIONChapter Nine: Who, What, and Why?: The Worship of the Firstborn in Hebrews 1:6David M. Allen, The Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, UKChapter Ten: Devotion to Jesus Christ in Earliest Christianity—An Appraisal and Discussion of the Work of Larry HurtadoRichard J. Bauckham, University of St Andrews, UK and University of Cambridge, UKChapter Eleven: Hebrews and WisdomMary Ann Beavis, University of Saskatchewan, CanadaChapter Twelve, Christology, Martyrdom, and Vindication in the Gospel of Mark and the Apocalypse: Two New Testament ViewsPaul Middleton, University of Chester, UKBibliography

A fitting tribute to a fine scholar of Early Christianity, in whose debt many of us are.