According to tradition, the author, Mark is not an apostle himself. Not one of the original disciples, but rather the follower of one of them. Traditionally, he's supposed to be the disciple of Peter ...

(RNS) — Of the four Gospel writers, Mark is the one you would not want to invite to dinner. But he is the one who will challenge you to listen more carefully and to think more deeply about Jesus. (RNS ...

Elisabeth Sch ssler-Fiorenza's ""hermeneutic of suspicion"" is possibly the most formative idea to emerge from the feminist biblical scholarship of the late 1990s. As one of Sch ssler-Fiorenza's ...

For centuries, the strange ending of Mark’s Gospel has provoked heated debates. Is it possible that the “original” Gospel, the first “edition” of Mark, ends ...

Previous forgeries make announcements of new archeological discoveries difficult to believe. Early copies of the Gospel of Mark are not as common as the other three gospels. The reason: 90 percent of ...

In the not-so-distant past when 90 or 95 percent of Americans identified as Christian, it was hard for almost anyone in that vast majority to read the Christian Gospels naïvely — to come to them ...

It all started in the dusty storeroom of the Egyptian Sinai desert, the type of environment where dust particles float in the air as if they have lingered too long to be discovered. In 1975, ...

Discover Mark’s vision of Jesus as the mysterious figure “the Son of Man,” misunderstood and rejected by all. Learn of this gospel’s direct and stark portrayal of the power revealed through suffering ...