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Mark 16:1-8
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| Historical References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
| The
Five Gospels Parallels, John W. Marshall, University of Toronto. |
| The Gospel According to Peter |
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"The Empty Tomb," The Jesus Database, an online annotated inventory of
the traditions concerning the life and teachings of Jesus. Dr. Gregory C.
Jenks, FaithFutures Foundation. |
| Patristic Commentary from the Catena Aurea. |
| From the
Catena
Aurea, Patristic Commentary by St Thomas Aquinas. |
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"Christ's Resurrection," Martin Luther,
c. 1525. |
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"The Fruit & Power of Christ's Resurrection,"
Martin Luther, c. 1525. |
| From the Geneva Notes. |
| From
Matthew
Henry's Commentary.
 | "Nicodemus brought a large
quantity of spices, but these good women did not think that enough.
The respect others show to Christ, should not hinder us from showing
our respect." |
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| The Nature
of Christ's Resurrection, Samuel Willard, c. 1700.
| "The precise nature of
Christ's resurrection consists of two things: there is something
internal, the reunion of his soul and body, and external,
his coming out of the grave after that reunion." |
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| From
Wesley's Notes.
| "Who shall roll us away the
stone - This seems to have been the only difficulty they
apprehended. So they knew nothing of Pilate's having sealed the
stone, and placed a guard of soldiers there." |
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| From the
Commentary on the Whole Bible
(Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
| "In Mt
28:2 he is called "the angel of the Lord"; but here he
is described as he appeared to the eye, in the bloom of a life that
knows no decay. In Matthew he is represented as sitting on the stone
outside the sepulchre; but since even there he says, "Come,
see the place where the Lord lay" (Mt
28:6), he seems, as ALFORD says, to have
gone in with them from without; only awaiting their arrival to
accompany them into the hallowed spot, and instruct them about
it." |
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| From The People's
New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891.
| "Observe that as Christ's
first appearance is to Mary Magdalene (John
20:18), out of whom he had cast seven devils, so his special
message is to Peter, who had denied him. A touching commentary on
our Savior's saying that he came to save sinners." |
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| Contemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
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Comments
(commentary) and
Clippings
(technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican
Diocese of Montreal. |
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A Brief Commentary on the
Gospel of Mark, Chapter 16, Carl W. Conrad. (Click superscript numbers
for commentary.) |
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"Women
Find Tomb Empty,"
"The Missing
Ending of Mark," Michael A. Turton's Historical Commentary on the
Gospel of Mark, "a complete verse-by-verse
commentary on the Gospel of Mark, focusing on the historicity of people,
places, events, and sayings in the world of the Gospel of Mark." |
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"The Women at the Tomb,"
Gospel Analysis, Sermons from
Seattle, Pastor Edward F. Markquart, Grace Lutheran Church, Seattle,
Washington. Detailed background and exegesis. |
| Mark 16 / Matthew 28: The Interactive Bible, David
Landry, University of St. Thomas. After downloading the free Authorware
plug-in, you can participate in an interactive study of the text, view
art work representing the text, and take a quiz about interpreting the
text.
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"An Amazing Event," Easter
Sunday, Larry Broding's Word-Sunday.Com: A Catholic Resource for This
Sunday's Gospel. Adult Study, Children's Story, Family Activity, Support
Materials.
| "Have you ever seen or heard of an event so
disconcerting, it "stopped you in your tracks?" So amazing, you just had
to talk about it to others?" |
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| Exegetical
Notes by Brian Stoffregen at CrossMarks.
| "It can be easy to
"see" the risen Christ in a packed Easter Sunday worship
service, or perhaps even in a sunrise or the spring flowers
blooming; but where is the risen Jesus when the people return home
-- to the drudgery of the same old things? The risen Christ has gone
there ahead of them. They will see him." |
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Marginally Mark, by Brian McGowan, Anglican priest in Western
Australia.
| "Perhaps some of us out in the daily margins of life
are where the women are as they approach the tomb: who is going to help
us roll the stone away? What is the stone in our case? What's locking
not Jesus but us in?" |
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"He Has
Risen: He Is Not Here!"
Jerry Goebel, One
Family Outreach. "Focus on scripture from a justice perspective." Exegesis, study, and teen study
and activities.
| "What happened that morning was not the result of a
group of true believers (they came to properly bury Jesus—not to await
his resurrection as Jesus prophesied), instead we have a small group of
broken women whose love for their friend was even greater than their
expectations of him." |
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"He Is Not Here," Fred Craddock, The Christian Century, 2003.
| "...even Mark's brief Easter account is full of Good
News." |
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"He Is Risen!" Samuel Wells, The Christian Century, 2000.
| "EASTER MORNING is the defining place and moment of
Christian space and time." |
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"Ending without End," Patrick J. Willson, The Christian Century,
1994.
| "This is the way Easter dawns upon us: with promise
and apprehension." |
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"Who
Will Roll the Stone Away?"
Rev. Bryan Findlayson, Lectionary Bible
Studies and Sermons, Pumpkin Cottage Ministry Resources. Includes detailed
textual notes. |
| "The
Gospel of Mark from Beginning to End,"
James T. Dennison Jr. in Kerux: The Online Journal of Biblical
Theology (Reformed)
| "Mark
begins and ends his gospel with schism-a division, a parting, a
rending-the schism of the heavens (chapter 1: 10); the schism of the
veil in the temple (chapter 15:38)." |
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"Beginning Again,"
Tim Geddert, Direction, 2004. |
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| Articles & Background:
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"Mark 16,"
"Empty Tomb," wikipedia. |
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"Intertextuality, the Hermeneutics of 'Other,' and Mark 16:6-7: a New but
Not New Challenge for Biblical Interpreters," Michael Trainor,
Biblical Theology Bulletin, 2005.
| "A hearing of the Markan text from the perspective of
the hermeneutics of 'other' reveals startling insights into the gospel's
meaning of the resurrection and its implications for a world that suspects
the other." |
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"Reading
between the Lines: The Women at the tomb in Mark and Michelangelo's Pieta,"
Dana Worsnop, Gravitas, 2000.
| "The sculpture of the Pieta allows us to grieve the
death of the human being Jesus. It gives us a more final kind of
satisfaction of touching and holding the body." |
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| "Burying
the Dead in Simple White Shrouds," by Anita Diamont, at Jewish Heritage Online
Magazine's Topic of the Month: Colors.
| "The
traditional clothing for burying the dead are tahrihim,
simple white shrouds. Their use dates back to Rabbi Simeon ben
Gamliel II, who, in the second century CE, asked to be buried in
inexpensive linen garments." |
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"Dramatic Inclusion: Irony and the Narrative Rhetoric of the Ending of
Mark," J. David Hester, JSNT 1995. |
| "Women
Transformed: The Ending of Mark is the Beginning of Wisdom," by Marie Sabin in
CrossCurrents, Summer 1998.
| "Mark's assertion that
"they said nothing to anyone" must be taken as the final
Markan irony. The statement echoes Jesus' first charge to the cured
leper "not to say anything to anyone" (1:44); as one hears
the echo, one must also remember that the leper immediately
"went out and began to talk freely" (1:45). The leper
became a preacher; so here, the very fact of Mark's Gospel is
testimony to the eloquence of the women." |
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| A number of examples of socio-rhetorical interpretations of Mark 15 - 16, from
"Examples
of Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation in Mark," at Dr. Vernon K. Robbins' Encyclopedia
of Socio-Rhetorical Interpretation.
| (From "Patron/Client
Contract") "...Jesus accepts the will of God, the patron
benefactor of all, including Jesus. In return for his willingness to
die a humiliating death on the cross, God transforms Jesus' corpse
into a body that can rise up from death and be absent from the
tomb." |
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"Mark and Mystery," Linda Maloney,
Currents in Theology and Mission,
2003.
| "What do you say when the end of the world is
announced? What would you say?" |
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"The
Changing Role of Women in the Early Christian World,"
Howard Clark Kee, University of Pennsylvania. Theology Today,
1992.
| "If the church in our time
were to take with full seriousness the radical openness toward women
and their participation in the life of God's people that
characterized the movement at the outset, it could result in a
significant contribution toward renewal of both the church and the
human race." |
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"Blurring
the Boundaries: A Response to Howard C. Kee,"
Virginia Burrus, The Theological School at Drew University. Theology
Today, 1992.
| "...a blurring of
religious or cultural boundaries in our historical
reconstructions may cut against the smugness that frequently
creeps into Christian discussions of Judaism and other religious
traditions. The roots of a distinctive Christian feminism would
appear to be entangled in Jewish and pagan traditions, rather
than emerging in pure and radical opposition to those
traditions. Second, a blurring of chronological boundaries in
our historical reconstructions may cut against the tendency to
locate orthodox or authentic Christianity almost purely in a
statically defined "golden age" of the distant past.
After all, how liberating is it for Christian women to be
invited to focus exclusively on "the insights of Jesus and
Paul"?" |
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"The Red-Haired Saint: Is Mary Magdalene the Key to the Easter Narratives?"
James T. Baker. Religion Online. |
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Articles in
ATLAS Journals. (Direct link when you are
subscribed and logged in to
ATLASerials online collection of Religion and Theology Journals.):
| Adams, Joanna M.,
"Good News Indeed," Journal for Preachers, 2004. |
| Crocker, Cornelia
Cyss, "Emotions as Loopholes for Answerability in the Unfinalized Gospel
According to Mark," Perspectives in Religious Studies, 2005.
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| Enniss, P.C.,
"Too Preposterous to Believe," Journal for Preachers, 2003. |
| Iverson, Kelly R.,
"A Further Word on final GAR (Mark 16:8)," The Catholic
Biblical Quarterly, 2006. |
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Kelly, Geffrey B.,
"Finding Sustenance in the Midst of Disappointment,"
The Living Pulpit,
2005. |
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Lamborn, Amy Bentley,
"I Know that My Redeemer Lives," The Living Pulpit,
2005. |
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Long, Thomas G.,
"Preaching Easter from the Gospel of Mark,"
Journal for Preachers,
2003. |
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Lyle, Kenneth R., Jr.,
"Preaching the Resurrection to Experience the Risen Christ,"
The Living Pulpit,
2005. |
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Mitchell, Ella Pearson,
"Humble Before the Power of God," The Living Pulpit,
2005. |
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Pickett, Raymond,
"Following Jesus in Galilee: Resurrection as Empowerment in the Gospel of
Mark," Currents in
Theology and Mission, 2006. |
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Pierce, Brian J., O.P.,
"Romero, Resistance, and Resurrection,"
The Living Pulpit,
2005. |
| Polan, Gregory J., "Preaching at the Easter Vigil:
The Paschal Mystery in the Old Testament Texts," Liturgical
Ministry, 2004. (Section on this text begins on page 158.)
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Sappenfield, William J.,
"Love Strong Enough to Defeat Death,"
The Living Pulpit,
2005. |
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Smith, J. Alfred, Sr.,
"Understandings of the Resurrection," The Living Pulpit,
2005. |
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Smith, Daniel A.,
"Revisiting the Empty Tomb: the Post-Mortem Vindication of Jesus in Mark
and Q," Novum
Testamentum, 2003. |
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Syreeni, Kari,
"In Memory of Jesus; Grief Work in the Gospels,"
Biblical Interpretation,
2004. |
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Taylor, Barbara Brown, "Easter Sunday
2006," Journal for Preachers, 2008. Sermon.
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| Reviews:
| Fullmer, Paul M., Resurrection in
Mark's Literary-Historical Perspective, T&T Clark, 2007.
Reviews
by Pheme Perkins and John Dart, Review of Biblical Literature, 2008. |
| Upton, Bridget Gilfillan, Hearing
Mark's Endings: Listening to Ancient Popular Texts through Speech Act Theory.
Brill, 2006.
Review
by W.R. Telford, Review of Biblical Literature, 2008. |
| Waterman, Mark W., The Empty Tomb
Tradition of Mark: Text, History, and Theological Studies. Agathos,
2006.
Review by Michael R. Licona, Review of Biblical Literature, 2007. |
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| Sermons:
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| With Children:
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"The
Resurrection,"
Illustrating the Story (lessons, children's sermons),
coloring pages, activity sheets, crafts, children's songs. MSSS Crafts. |
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"Footprints,"
Talks to Children, Rev. Donald
McCorkindale, Dalgety Parish Church, Fife, Scotland. |
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"The
Easter Story," Linda Edwards, The Children's Chapel. |
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"Mary Magdalene
Speaks to the Risen Christ," Sunday School
Lessons: Family Bible Study, art projects, music, stories, etc. |
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"He Is Risen,"
Jim Kerlin, childrensermons.com. |
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"Jesus Is Risen,"
children's study, puzzles, coloring sheet, etc. Higher Praise Christian
Center. |
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Mark 15 & 16 Word Search, Don Crownover's
Bible Puzzles. |
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"The Empty Tomb," online
computer java-based coloring pages from Grace Baptist Church of Feeding
Hill. |
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| Drama:
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"The First Day of the Week,"
from
A Certain Jesus by
Jose Ignacio and Maria Lopez Vigil. Ideal for catechetical and liturgical
dramatization of today's gospel. Claretian Publications. |
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| Graphics & Bulletin Materials:
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| Hymns and Music:
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| Fine Arts Images Linked at The Text This Week's
Art Index:
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| Movies scenes with the following themes,
listed at The Text This Week's Movie Concordance:
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| The above links are for the study of
specifically Mark's resurrection account. See also Study Links and Resources for the
general Accounts of Jesus'
Resurrection |
| Study Links and Resources for the
Book of Mark |
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