John's Transformation of Mark (Criminal Practice)

John’s Transformation of Mark brings together a cast of internationally recognised biblical scholars to investigate the relationship between the gospels of Mark and John. In a significant break with the prevailing view that the two gospels represent independent traditions, contributors argue that John both knew of and used the earlier gospel to write his own text. Drawing on recent analytical categories such as social memory, ‘secondary orality,’ or ‘relecture,’ and ancient literary genres such as ‘rewritten Bible’, historiography and bioi, the central questions that drive this volume focus on how John used Mark, whether we should speak of ‘dependence,’ ‘familiarity with,’ or ‘reception,’ and whether John intended his work to be a supplement to or a replacement of Mark. Together these contributions mount a strong case for a complete reassessment of one of the key tenets of modern biblical criticism, opening up significant new avenues for future research.

Eve-Marie Becker is Professor of New Testament Studies at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany. Her recent publications are concerned with the Corinthian Correspondence and its reception, with hermeneutics and the interpretation of the Gospel of Mark.

Helen K. Bond is Professor of Christian Origins and Head of the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the social and political history of Judaea under Roman rule, the historical Jesus, and the canonical gospels. She is the author of Pontius Pilate in History and Interpretation (1998), Caiaphas: High Priest and Friend of Rome? (2004), The Historical Jesus: A Guide for the Perplexed (2012), Jesus: A Very Brief History (2017), The First Biography of Jesus: Genre and Meaning in Mark's Gospel (2020), and a number of shorter studies and articles.

Catrin H. Williams is Senior Lecturer in New Testament Studies, University of Wales: Trinity Saint David, Lampeter.