Let the Reader Understand

Introduction
Preface -- Edwin Broadhead, Berea College, USA
Elizabeth Struthers Malbon: Scholarly Publications and Contributions
Tribute -- David Rhoads, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago, USA
Tribute -- John R. Donahue, Loyola University Maryland, USA
Tribute -- Robert Fowler, Baldwin Wallace University, USA
Part One
1. Meaning as Narrative: The Creative Achievement of Elizabeth Struthers Malbon in Context -- Werner Kelber, Rice University, USA
Part Two: Issues in Methodology
1. Elizabeth Malbon's Contribution to Our Understanding of Mark's Christology -- Alan Culpepper, McAfee School of Theology, USA
2. Becoming a Disciple without Seeing Jesus: Narrative as a Means of Knowing -- Elizabeth Shively, University of St. Andrew's, UK
3. Characterization in Narrative and Performance -- Kelly Iverson, Baylor University, USA
Part Three: Studies in Characterization
1. Mark's Jesus: Sayings and Deeds -- Joanna Dewey, Episcopal Divinity School, USA
2. Characterizing Jesus in Mark's Longer Ending -- Christopher Skinner, Loyola University Chicago, USA
3. The Characterization of the Demons in Mark's Gospel -- Joel Williams, Cedarville University, USA
4. The Waiting Guest Room and Prophetic Characterization: A Critical Note -- Edwin Broadhead, Berea College, USA
5. Jesus and the Good Samaritan: A Study in Characterization -- Mikeal Parsons, Baylor University, USA
6. Uncovering Jesus: Characterization in the Narrative of John's Apocalypse -- David Barr, Wright State University, USA
Part Four: Narrative Readings
7. Mark's Poor Widow Revisited: The Case for Narrative Tension --Brent Driggers, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary of Lenoir-Rhyne University, USA
8. The Magnificat: A Disenchantment -- David Clines, University of Sheffield, UK
9. Paul and Mark-A Family Resemblance -- Calvin Roetzel, University of Minnesota, USA
10. Salvific Suffering in Paul: Eschatological, Vicarious, and Mimetic -- Jerry Sumney, Lexington Theological Seminary, USA
11. The Wrestling Episode of Genesis 32 -- Brian Britt, Virginia Tech University, USA
Part Five: Aesthetic and Political Readings
12. Love of Enemies and the Problem of Mass Incarceration -- Robert C. Tannehill, Methodist Theological School in Ohio at Delaware, USA
13. Visual Criticism and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Ecce Ancilla Domini - J. Cheryl Exum, University of Sheffield, UK
14. The Influence of the Junius Bassus Sarcophagus on Italian Renaissance Sculpture -- Heidi J. Hornik, Baylor University, USA
15. Brancusi's Table of Silence and the Resurrection of God in the Gospel of Mark -- Geert Van Oyen, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium
16. Discovering Where the Bodies are Hidden: Latitudinal Eschatological Perspectives in the Gospel of Mark -- Philip Ruge-Jones, independent scholar
17. Jesus of Montreal as an Interpretation of the Gospel of Mark -- Richard Walsh, Methodist University, USA
18. Listening and Giving Voice: Poems from the Gospel of Mark -- Cynthia Kittredge, Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, USA
Conclusion
Edwin Broadhead - Berea College, USA
Index