This volume aims to take up and continue the scholarly discussion of the relationship between Mark and Paul that has recently become a “hot topic” in New Testament exegesis: was the evangelist directly influenced – in spite of writing in a
completely different literary genre – by Paul, the writer of letters? Or should we
rather refer any similarities to the fact that both belonged to and articulated the
broader traditions of what we might best call “earliest Christianity”?
This is the set of questions that was put on the agenda when the two New
Testament departments at Denmark’s universities of Aarhus and Copenhagen decided to engage in a joint research venture a few years ago. We organized our
work around two conferences. In September 2010, the Danish participants in
the project met in Aarhus for a two-day session where we presented first drafts
of papers on the topic. During these two days we also discussed how the joint
research project might be continued in and beyond the Danish universities