Let the Reader Understand

Edwin K. Broadhead is Professor of General Studies at Berea College, USA.

[A] very useful collection.

• Introduction Preface -- Edwin Broadhead, Berea College, USAElizabeth Struthers Malbon: Scholarly Publications and ContributionsTribute -- David Rhoads, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago, USATribute -- John R. Donahue, Loyola University Maryland, USATribute -- Robert Fowler, Baldwin Wallace University, USAPart One 1. Meaning as Narrative: The Creative Achievement of Elizabeth Struthers Malbon in Context -- Werner Kelber, Rice University, USAPart Two: Issues in Methodology1. Elizabeth Malbon’s Contribution to Our Understanding of Mark’s Christology -- Alan Culpepper, McAfee School of Theology, USA2. Becoming a Disciple without Seeing Jesus: Narrative as a Means of Knowing -- Elizabeth Shively, University of St. Andrew’s, UK3. Characterization in Narrative and Performance -- Kelly Iverson, Baylor University, USAPart Three: Studies in Characterization1. Mark's Jesus: Sayings and Deeds -- Joanna Dewey, Episcopal Divinity School, USA2. Characterizing Jesus in Mark's Longer Ending -- Christopher Skinner, Loyola University Chicago, USA3. The Characterization of the Demons in Mark's Gospel -- Joel Williams, Cedarville University, USA4. The Waiting Guest Room and Prophetic Characterization: A Critical Note -- Edwin Broadhead, Berea College, USA5. Jesus and the Good Samaritan: A Study in Characterization -- Mikeal Parsons, Baylor University, USA6. Uncovering Jesus: Characterization in the Narrative of John's Apocalypse -- David Barr, Wright State University, USAPart Four: Narrative Readings7. Mark's Poor Widow Revisited: The Case for Narrative Tension --Brent Driggers, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary of Lenoir-Rhyne University, USA8. The Magnificat: A Disenchantment -- David Clines, University of Sheffield, UK9. Paul and Mark—A Family Resemblance -- Calvin Roetzel, University of Minnesota, USA10. Salvific Suffering in Paul: Eschatological, Vicarious, and Mimetic -- Jerry Sumney, Lexington Theological Seminary, USA11. The Wrestling Episode of Genesis 32 -- Brian Britt, Virginia Tech University, USAPart Five: Aesthetic and Political Readings12. Love of Enemies and the Problem of Mass Incarceration -- Robert C. Tannehill, Methodist Theological School in Ohio at Delaware, USA13. Visual Criticism and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Ecce Ancilla Domini – J. Cheryl Exum, University of Sheffield, UK14. The Influence of the Junius Bassus Sarcophagus on Italian Renaissance Sculpture -- Heidi J. Hornik, Baylor University, USA15. Brancusi's Table of Silence and the Resurrection of God in the Gospel of Mark -- Geert Van Oyen, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium16. Discovering Where the Bodies are Hidden: Latitudinal Eschatological Perspectives in the Gospel of Mark -- Philip Ruge-Jones, independent scholar17. Jesus of Montreal as an Interpretation of the Gospel of Mark -- Richard Walsh, Methodist University, USA18. Listening and Giving Voice: Poems from the Gospel of Mark -- Cynthia Kittredge, Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, USA ConclusionEdwin Broadhead – Berea College, USAIndex