(1) Darrell Bock (Dallas Theological Seminary) The Function of Scripture in Mark 15:1-39 (2) Edwin Broadhead (Berea College) "Reconfiguring Jesus: The Son of man in Markan Perspective" (3) Tony Cummins (Trinity Western University) The Death of John the Baptist in Mark 6:14-29 and Early Jewish Antecedents (4) Joanna Dewey (Episcopal Divinity School) Broader issues in Orality, Narrative and Hermeneutics in Mark (5) James Edwards (Whitworth College) The Servant in Isaiah 49 and The Hiddennes Motif in Mark (6) Craig Evans (Acadia Divinity College) "Zechariah in Mark's Passion Narrative" (7) Thomas Hatina (Trinity Western University) Introduction - Literary approches The Function of Daniel 7:13 in the formation of Mark's Plot (8) Elizabeth Struthers Malbon (possible) (Virginia Polytechnical Inst. and State Univ.) (9) Steve Moyise (University College of Chicester) "Is Mark 1:1-3 the Key to His Use of Scripture?" (10) Geert van Oyen (?) "The Influence of Isaiah 53 in Mark 10:45: Background, Context, and Hermeneutics" (11) Larry Perkins (Canadian Associated Theological Schools) (12) Stanley Porter (McMaster Divinity College) The Use of Authoritative Religious Texts in Mark and Ancient Biography (13) Mark Proctor (Baylor University) Mark's Resurrection Predictions (8:31, 9:31, and 10:33-34) and Early Christian Readings of Hosea 6:2 (14) Tom Shepherd (Union College) (15) Jesper Svartvik (Lund University) "Mark's Interpretation of the Pentateuchal Food Laws" (16) Mary Ann Tolbert (Pacific School of Religion) Genesis Creation Tradition and the 'Divorce' Pericope in Mark (17) Alvin Thompson (Central American Theological Seminary) "The Narrative Function of Mark 1:2-3: Discipleship and the Message of Mark" (18) Michael Vines (Lees-McRae College) Influence of Jewish Narrative Literature in the Ketuvim in Mark's Narrative Program OR Influence of Jewish Narratives of Trail and Martyrdom in Mark's Passion Narrative (19) Rikk Watts (Regent College) Psalms in Mark