@article{Perspective:1983,
      recid = {1983},
      author = {Ferguson, Cameron Evan},
      title = {The Binding of Past to Present: A New Perspective on the  Use of Paul in the Gospel of Mark},
      publisher = {The University of Chicago},
      school = {Ph.D.},
      address = {2019-08},
      pages = {247},
      abstract = {This study makes a sustained case for the plausible  literary dependence of the Gospel according to Mark on  select letters of Paul. It argues not only that Mark and  Paul share the same gospel narrative (the story of the  life, death, resurrection, and second coming of Jesus  Christ “in accordance with the scriptures” [see 1 Cor  15:3-8]), but also that Mark presumes Paul and his mission  to be constitutive episodes of that narrative (1 Cor 15:8).  This results in Mark’s adopting an etiological hermeneutic  vis-à-vis Paul, as the evangelist seeks to construct  narrative precursors concordant with the eventual teachings  of the itinerant apostle. Pauline rituals (baptism,  Eucharist), theological innovations (eg. justification by  faith), Christological emphases (suffering, death), and  ecclesiological horizons (the Gentile mission) are all  seeded into Mark’s gospel in forms that require the  recollection of Paul’s words to be understood properly.  This study focuses specifically upon the various  (re)presentations of Christ’s death that Paul takes to  occur within his communities—Christ's death performed in  ritual, prefigured in scripture, and embodied in his  person—and it argues that Mark self-consciously attempts to  establish literary precedent for them within his story of  the earthly mission of the messiah.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/1983},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.1983},
}