crucifixion of Jesus as the fullfillment of Mark 9:1, The

35Cf. Frank J. Matera, The Kingship of Jesus: Composition and Theology in Mark 15 (SBLDS 66; Chicago: Scholars Press, 1982).

36Paul Barnett, "Mark: Story and History," in In the Fullness of Time: Biblical Studies in Honour of Archbishop Donald Robinson (ed. David Petersen and John Pryor; Homebush West, NSW: Lancer, 1992), 34.

37I would go so far as to say that it relates to 1:1 and functions as a Christological inclusio (cf. Taylor, Mark, 597). See for discussion Earl S. Johnson Jr., "Is Mark 15:39 the key to Mark's Christology?" JSNT 31 (1987): 3-22; J. D. Kingsbury, The Christology of Mark's Gospel (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1983), 128-34.

382 Sam 7:14; Pss 2:7; 89:26-27; cf. 4QFlor 1:10-14; 1 Qsa 2:11-12; 4Q246 2:1; Wis 9:7; Sib. Or. 3:702; 4 Ezra 5:28; Jub. 1:25 ff. For Greco-Roman literature see L. R. Taylor, The Divinity of the Roman Emperors (New York: Arno, 1975), 59-180.

39Achtemeier, Mark, 61-62.

40M. Eugene Boring, "The Kingdom of God in Mark," in The Kingdom of God in 20th Century Interpretation (ed. Wendell Willis; Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1987), 144.

41Brower, "Seeing the Kingdom in Power," 38.

42Christopher Rowland, "Christ in the New Testament," in King and Messiah in Israel and the Ancient Near East (ed. John Day; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1998), 480.

43Pace Theodore J. Weeden, "The Cross as Power in Weakness (Mark 15:20b-41)," in The Passion in Mark: Studies in Mark 14-16 (ed. Werner H. Kelber; Philadelphia: Fortress, 1974), 115-34.

44Dorothy A. Lee-Pollard, "Powerlessness as Power: A Key Emphasis in the Gospel of Mark," SJT 40 (1987): 185-86.

45Ibid., 186.

46Barnett, Servant King, 173.

47Weeden, "The Cross as Power," 130.

48Waetjen, "A Re-ordering of Power," 327.

49Brower, "Seeing the Kingdom in Power," 32.

50Ibid., 34.

51Lane, Mark, 313.

52W. R. Telford, Mark (NTG; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1995), 133.

53C. K. Barrett, Jesus and the Gospel Tradition (London: SPCK, 1967), 85.

54Gundry, Mark, 468 f.

55Cf. Brower, "Seeing the Kingdom in Power," 35.

56Achtemeier, Mark, 102.

57C. E. B. Cranfield, "Thoughts on New Testament Eschatology," SJT 35 (1982): 503; cf. Gundry, Mark, 468 f.

58Bruce Chilton, God in Strength (Sheffield: JSOT, 1987), 268 f.; Gundry, Mark, 468 f.

59Brower, "Seeing the Kingdom in Power," 39.

60For an account of a riot that arose in Jerusalem during Passover see Josephus, The War of the Jews, 2.12.1.

61France, Jesus and the Old Testament, 140.

62M. Volkel, "...," EDNT 2:147; W. Michaelis, "...," TDNT 5:318.

63Brower, "Seeing the Kingdom in Power," 40. Cf. Alan R. Cole, Mark (TNTC; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997), 208-9 who identifies 9:1 with Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection.

64Cf. Martin Hengel, Crucifixion in the Ancient World and the Folly of the Message of the Cross (London; SCM, 1970).

65Gundry, Mark, 1022-25; cf. S. G. F. Brandon, Jesus and the Zealots (Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 1967), 221-82.

66Cf. Kee, Community of the New Age, 64-76; Burton L. Mack, A Myth of Innocence: Mark and Christian Origins (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988), 325-31; N. T. Wright, The New Testament and UK People of God (Fortress: Minneapolis, 1992), 391-96.