"This type of biblical theological research bodes well for a better understanding of New Testament redemptive theology while maintaining its organic and developmental connections with the formative events and themes in the Old Testament Scriptures. This book represents solid scholarship, a creative use of other disciplines (social theory), and irenic argumentation. It provides a useful model for the investigation of the literary and theological structure of the other Gospels and New Testament literature as such."--Erwin Penner, Canadian Evangelical Review

"Offers a thoughtful contribution to the on-going discussion on intertextuality between the Gospel of Mark and the Book of Isaiah. It is a textbook for both OT and NT students."-Yohan Pyeon, Religious Studies Review

"Baker Book House must be commended for choosing Rikki Watt's monograph to be reprinted as part of their Bbilical Studies Library series. The purpose of this series is to make available to a wider audience of biblical scholars reprints of monographs which have been published on the other side of the Atlantic. . . . Watts has made a significant contribution to Markan studies, and I anticipate that Watts's volume will become a standard reference and citation for all future academic work in Mark's Gospel."-Kevin W. Larsen, Stone Campbell Journal