Introduction / Nicole Wilkinson Duran -- The nature and identity of Jesus in Mark 7:24-37 : A Zimbabwean interpretation / Israel Kamudzandu -- Exorcism or healing? : a Korean preacher's rereading of Mark 5:1-20 / Sejong Chun -- Other people's demons : reading Mark's demons in the disbelieving West / Nicole Wilkinson Duran -- The misunderstanding of Jesus's disciples in Mark : an interpretation from a community-centered perspective / Jin Young Choi -- The Markan construction of Jesus as disciple of the kingdom / Oswaldo D. Vena -- The conflict in Mark : a reading from the armed conflict in Columbia / Elsa Tamez -- Children in Mark : a lens for reading Mark's gospel / Teresa Okure -- Sexuality and household : when "cultural reading" supersedes and skews the meaning of texts / Hisako Kinukawa -- The relationship between John the Baptist and Jesus in the gospel of Mark : a postcolonial interpretation from a Chinese Malayan text / Menghun Goh -- Contextual reading of Mark and North Atlantic scholarship / Daniel Patte.
