One of the most commonly held conclusions from modern New Testament scholarship is that the Gospel of Mark is the earliest gospel to have been written and that Luke and Matthew draw on Mark (and an ...

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 ...

(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 ...

We are blessed to proclaim from Saint Mark’s Gospel currently at Holy Mass in these early weeks of Ordinary Time. As we know, Mark is the most bare-bones of all the canonical Gospels and, as I have ...

Mark’s account of Jesus’ ministry is the simplest and most straightforward of all four gospels. Scholars generally agree it was the first gospel to be written, probably sometime around A.D.

When it comes to historical analysis of the Bible, everything is fodder for debate. But even in such a tendentious arena, there is one hypothesis that’s mostly agreed upon. The shortest gospel was ...

Novum Testamentum is a leading international journal devoted to the study of the New Testament and related subjects. It covers textual and literary criticism, critical interpretation, theology and the ...

The gospel of Mark is the second to appear in the New Testament, but most scholars now agree that it was composed first. While the work is attributed to "Mark," we will probably never know the ...