The Literary Character of Mark 3:22–30

The Apocalyptic Character of Mark 3:22–30:

Mark as a narrative written by a creative author led later scholars to view the evangelist himself as an apocalyptic thinker and the Gospel itself as an apocalyptic narrative (Norman Perrin, The New Testament: An Introduction, 237–39; Adela Yarbro Collins, The Beginning of the Gospel: Probings of Mark in Context, 27–38; Adela Yarbro Collins, Mark, 42–44; Luke Timothy Johnson, The Writings of the New Testament, 167; Howard Clark Kee, Community of the New Age, 69; Ched Myers, Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark’s Story of Jesus, 101–4).

Defining Mark as “Apocalyptic” (Robinson, Perrin, Clark Kee, Collins, Marcus, Myers)

The Juxtaposition of Isaiah 40:3 and Malachi 3:1 in Mark 1:2–3