Christopher W. Skinner is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Mount Olive, USA.

Matthew Ryan Hauge (PhD, Claremont Graduate University) is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Azusa Pacific University in California, USA.

Preface
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Introduction
Part One: Markan Characterization: History and Method

1. 'The Study of Character(s) in the Gospel of Mark: A Survey of Research from Wrede to the Performance Critics' (1903 - 2013)
Christopher W. Skinner, Mount Olive College in North Carolina, USA

2. 'History, Theology, Story: Re-Contextualizing Mark's "Messianic Secret" as Characterization'
Elizabeth Struthers Malbon, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

3. 'The Creation of Person in Ancient Narrative and the Gospel of Mark'
Matthew Ryan Hauge, Azusa Pacific University in California, USA

Part Two:Approaching the Characters of Mark's Gospel

4. 'God as Healer of Creation in the Gospel of Mark'
Ira Brent Driggers, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary of Lenoir-Rhyne University, USA

5. 'The Characterization of Jesus as Lord in Mark's Gospel'
Joel F. Williams, Cedarville University, USA

6. 'Characterizing the Non-Human: Satan in the Gospel of Mark'
Elizabeth E. Shively, University of St Andrews, UK

7. 'The Narrative Rhetoric of Mark's Characterization of Peter'
Paul L. Danove, Villanova University, USA

8. 'Women in Mark's Gospel'
Susan E. Miller, University of Glasgow, UK

9. '"Their Great Ones Act as Tyrants Over Them": Reading Mark's Characterization of Roman Authorities from a Distinctly Roman Perspective'
Adam Winn, Azusa Pacific University, USA

10. 'Gentile Characters and the Motif of Proclamation in the Gospel of Mark'
Cornelis Bennema, Wales Evangelical School of Theology, UK

Bibliography
Index