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Mark
9:14-29
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- Historical References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
- The
Five Gospels Parallels, John W. Marshall, University of Toronto.
- Comparative World Scriptures from United
Communities of Spirit:
Faith.
- Comparative primary texts about
Spirit Possession and Exorcism
and Purity and
Social Relations, from Philo, Josephus, Lucian, Pseudepigrapha, Babylonian Talmud,
Midrash, Philostratus. At Mahlon H. Smith's (Rutgers University) Into His Own: Perspective on the World
of Jesus.
- From the
Catena
Aurea, Patristic Commentary by St Thomas Aquinas.
- From the Geneva Notes.
- "The nearer that the virtue of
Christ is the far greater Satan rages."
- From
Matthew
Henry's Commentary.
- "But Satan is unwilling to be
driven from those that have been long his slaves, and, when he
cannot deceive or destroy the sinner, he will cause him all the
terror that he can."
- From
Wesley's Notes.
- "Although my faith be so
small, that it might rather be termed unbelief, yet help me."
- From the
Commentary on the Whole Bible
(Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
- "Thus the Lord helps the birth
of faith in that struggling soul; and now, though with pain and sore
travail, it comes to the birth."
- From The People's
New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891.
- "The faith which will be
effectual must be a faith exercised in prayer."
- Contemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
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A Brief Commentary on the
Gospel of Mark, Chapter 8:27 - 10:52, Carl W. Conrad. (Click superscript numbers
for commentary.)
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"Jesus
Heals an Epileptic that the Disciples Failed to Heal," 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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"Faith
and Unfaith," Rev. Bryan Findlayson, Lectionary Bible
Studies and Sermons, Pumpkin Cottage Ministry Resources. Includes detailed
textual notes.
- Articles & Background:
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"Mark
9: The
Possessed Boy," wikipedia.
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"Magic, Miracles, and The Gospel," L. Michael White. PBS From
Jesus to Christ.
- "Probably in some ways, and more than any other
issue within the development of early Christianity and the gospels
tradition, miracles present one of the problematic areas."
- "Miracles,
In Other Words: Social Science Perspectives on Healings," Jerome H. Neyrey,
University of Notre Dame, 1995.
- "...we should attend to the
institution in which the healing takes place, either kinship or politics. What roles does
the family have in an illness? How are they socially and economically affected? What role
do they play in the seeking of a cure? What costs do they pay or debts to they incur? What
if the healing occurs in the political realm, even if this is a healing shrine such as the
temple of Asclepius at Epidaurus? Healings, moreover, might have important political
implications, for "prophets" arose, echoing themes of liberation and freedom.
The political significance of the account of the healing by the Jewish Eleazar before the
emperor Vespasian and his retinue should not be discounted (Josephus. Ant.
8.45-48)."
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"Opening Blind Eyes: A Revisioning of Mark 8:22 - 10:52," Marie Noel
Keller, Biblical Theology Bulletin, 2001.
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"Keller
argues that Mark uses the stories of the two blind men in his Gospel to
serve as metaphors for his community...Their stories and the material
within the frame of 8:22-10:52 work together to help his community learn
the lessons they need in order to advance from the fear they are
experiencing to follow Jesus boldly 'on the way.'"
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from ATLAS, an online collection of religion and theology journals, are
linked below.
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