What is the relationship between the earliest Gospel and the first Christian letters? Heidrun E. Mader provides a comprehensive overview of the relationship between the Pauline epistles and the Gospel of Mark. She addresses several themes that Paul and Mark treat similarly, showing that Mark’s Gospel takes up central topics of Paul’s theology and develops them narratively. Among these are the universalist concept of the gospel, the integration of pagan Christ followers, the position of the Torah in early Christian community life, and the central role of the cross. Mader shows that there...