Theology

This concise volume brings together seventeen essays by international scholars that examine the Gospel of Mark from historical and theological perspectives. The contributions address key issues of reception, interpretation, and application, reflecting the current state and diversity of scholarly research on Mark's theological and literary profile.

Stefan Alkier's collected essays on biblical intertextuality research demonstrate how the preposition »inter« transforms the meaning of biblical texts from a fixed locus into a dynamic space of textual relations-thereby opening up exegesis as a creative, perspectivally situated, and ever-renewed work of interpretation.

Philippa Townsend argues that early Christian sacrificial ideas were shaped by a widespread discursive association between ethnicity and sacrifice in ancient Mediterranean texts. Christians used sacrificial rhetoric to establish and perpetuate their identity as a people in ways that have shaped modern ideas about race and religion.

Manse Rim examines the relation between messiah and righteousness in ancient Jewish texts and in the letters of Paul, aiming to offer a fresh perspective on the current impasse regarding Pauline justification. By tracing moral, administrative, and eschatological dimensions, he redefines the framework for understanding Pauline righteousness.