New Testament: Mark’s Gospel
- Identity of Author
o Hypotheses of who or what Mark is/was
o Idea of Mark as author (the idea is clear, what is it)
- How was Mark written? What are the components? What is the geography?
- Key Themes:
o Prelude
- Jesus’ Baptism & Testing (in the dessert)
- Mark 1:14 – 8:30
o Who is Jesus?
- Healing Miracles
o Know some of the following examples:
ß Leper (1:40)
ß Man with a withered hand (3:1)
ß The bleeding woman
ß Deaf man
ß Blind man
ß Peter’s mother-in-law
- Exorcisms
o Man in the Synagogue (1:21)
o Raging possessed man in the Gentile territory of Gedara (5:1)
- Nature Miracles
o Calming the storm (4:35)
o Walking on water (6:45)
o Feeding of the 4,000 (8:1) and the 5,000
- Raising people from the dead?
o Jairus’ Daughter
- What is the miracle form found within Mark’s gospel?
- What do each of the above ‘types’ of miracles represent? (Jesus vs. life)
o What is Mark trying to teach us by way of the explaining the miracle stories?
- Son of Man
o What is meant by this term?
o Who is Jesus? How does Jesus fit into this role? Who is the Son of Man?
o Where do you and I sit in relation to this term?
- Scriptural background of the Son of Man (2 quotes named in the text & in my notes)
o Mark 13:26
o Daniel 7:13
- Transfiguration
- The Human Jesus
o Mark: vivid portrait of the man of Jesus
o Mark 10:21
- Jesus: The Messiah
o Not accepted in the original “thought of what the Messiah was supposed to be”
o What was the ideal Messiah? Who did he/she share the same bloodline with?
o Mark 8:27-30: Jesus’ asks disciples who he is…
- The Paschal Mystery
o Passion, Death, & Resurrection of Jesus
o Mark 1-13: What is this considered by some scholars?
- The Final Hours of Jesus
o Different elements
