Mark – ACTS and MORE—Steve Walton’s blog on New Testament Studies

12 September 2024

Handouts for my Gospels class in Morogoro, Tanzania

This page is primarily for my students in Morogoro, Tanzania, where I’m teaching the Gospels for the next little while. I shall share the handouts in English and (computer) Swahili here for you to download. This list will grow as the class progresses, so please keep visiting to pick up the handouts. Ukurasa huu kimsingi ni wa wanafunzi wangu wa...

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10 March 2024

Mark 3:20-35: Teaching a Markan sandwich

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9 January 2024

Introducing Mark: slides

I have led an evening for our preaching team at Emmanuel Church, Loughborough, introducing Mark’s Gospel, since we’re doing a preaching series in Mark at our morning services over the coming months. Here are the slides from my input—thoughts and comments welcome!

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9 December 2022

Reflecting on SBL Denver 2022

I greatly enjoyed being in Denver a couple of weeks ago for the annual SBL meeting. It was a lovely opportunity to reconnect with people, many of whom I’d not seen in person for three years because of covid—I cannot recall a day when I have hugged so many people as the Friday! In particular, it was great to see...

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4 October 2022

A live performance of Richard Burridge’s new translation of the Gospel of Mark

My friend the New Testament scholar Richard Burridge has worked on a new English translation of Mark’s Gospel, seeking to be as true as possible to the word order, verb tenses, word-plays and puns in Greek, and the like. I’ve read sections of this and it’s fascinating—at times it sounds rather Yoda-like in its word order, and that helps recognise...

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23 February 2021

An update to our Gospels and Acts textbook

The introductory textbooks Exploring the New Testament are a one-stop guide to engaging with the Gospels and Acts (volume 1) and the Letters and Revelation (volume 2). Published by SPCK in the UK and IVP in the USA, volume 1 has just appeared in a third, substantially revised, edition. The third edition of volume 2, revised by Stephen Travis and Ian Paul, will appear in...

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