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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: The Theological Matters | |
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| An Easter Story Without Resurrection Appearances | |
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| A Gospel Without Birth Stories | |
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| The Gospel as Disclosive of the Evangelist's Inner Life | |
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| The Gospel Is About the Present, Not the Past | |
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| A Fragmentary Narrative | |
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| Jesus' Spirituality Was Not New | |
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| Why Put So Much Stress upon Faith? | |
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| Conflict as Suffering | |
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| Where Is Love in Mark's Gospel? | |
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| A Believer from the Beginning | |
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| What's in a Title? | |
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| A Biblical Phrase | |
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| Son of God on Roman Lips | |
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| An Easter Lion | |
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| Put to the Test | |
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| The Demons | |
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| In What Way Was Jesus Sinless? | |
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| Sinlessness Does Not Contradict Humanness | |
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| The Eschatological Aspect of Sinlessness | |
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| Sinlessness as Dedication to the Will of God | |
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| Jesus as Person of Faith | |
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| Of Calling and Following | |
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| Disciples First, Apostles Later | |
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| The Story of Levi: The Miracle of the Needle's Eye | |
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| Who Is It That Calls? | |
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| Fishing for Human Lives | |
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| The Authority to Forgive | |
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| Locating Forgiveness in Mark | |
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| The Restoration of a Parent's Confidence in God | |
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| Forgiveness as Liberation from Burdens | |
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| A Theological Note on Mark 11:25 | |
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| What God Ordains | |
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| Wrestling with Suffering | |
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| Turning to Mark | |
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| A Kingdom of Throwaways | |
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| Who Are the Rejected Ones? | |
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| The Story Is Not (Directly) About Us | |
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| Going Beyond Jesus | |
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| Jesus--The Quintessential Throwaway | |
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| Paying the Emperor's Tax | |
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| Setting the Scene | |
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| The Narrative Tensions | |
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| Some Conclusions | |
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| The Theological Matters | |
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| A World of Parables | |
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| The Parable of the Lamp | |
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| The Parable of the Fig Tree | |
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| Does Mark Encourage a Cult of Suffering? | |
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| Not All Suffering Is Alike | |
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| Life as Ransom | |
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| In the Company of Prophets | |
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| "And he was transfigured" | |
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| Living in the Presence of Prophets | |
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| Prophets and Their People | |
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| Can God Be Trusted? | |
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| Of Prayers and Miracles | |
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| The Case Test: The Death of Jesus | |
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| Trusting Jesus Is Trusting God | |
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| What Sort of God Would Raise the Dead? | |
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| Theology Comes First | |
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| Standing (Again) Among the Living | |
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| A Scandalous Particularity | |
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| The Futility of Secrets | |
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| Why Not Tell Everything Plainly? | |
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| The Kingdom of God After Easter | |
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| Suppose There Was Only Mark | |
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| A Non-Markan Ending | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Scriptural Index | |
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| Index of Names | |
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| Index of Subjects | |