Michael Kok

Email: bsp10mjk@sheffield.ac.uk

PhD Thesis title:

The Centrist Christian Appropriation of the Gospel of Mark: My research is on the early reception history of the "Gospel According to Mark" from Papias to Clement of Alexandria and will focus on the ideological function of indirectly ascribing this gospel text to the Apostle Peter by proto-orthodox (or centrist) Christian writers.

Name of supervisor: Professor James Crossley

Publications:

"The True Covenant People: Ethnic Reasoning in the Epistle of Barnabas" Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 40 (2011): 81-97.

Michael Kok, "The Flawed Evangelist (John) Mark: A Neglected Clue to the Reception of Mark's Gospel in Luke-Acts?" Neotestamentica (forthcoming)

Conferences, symposiums:

"From Paul's Fellow Worker to Peter's Son: the Function of 'Mark' in the Pseudonymous Framework of 1 Peter" at SBL International Meeting, London, July 2011 (also presented this at the Sheffield, Manchester, Durham Student Conference, April 2011)

"A Contested Covenant: Constructing a Christian Ethnic Identity in the Epistle of Barnabas" at SBL Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Nov 2011

"The Flawed Evangelist (John) Mark: Reading Luke-Acts in Light of Papias" at SBL Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Nov 2011

"Papias and the Four Canonical Gospels" at Sheffield, Manchester, Durham Student Conference, April 2012.

"Who is the True Israel? Christian Ethnocentrism in Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho the Jew” at The Bible, Zionism and Palestine Conference, May 2012