The Gospel of Mark in the Revised Standard Version (RSV) is taken from here.

Other RSV cites are taken from here.

All other English Bible cites are from Bible Gateway.

The Septuagint In English Translation by L. Brenton was consulted for the LXX in English. It is online here and here. 

Wieland Willker has a beautiful Greek text of Mark online here.

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Achtemeier, Paul. 1970. Toward the Isolation of Pre-Markan Miracle Catenae. JBL 89:265-91. Cited in Crossan, John D. 1991. The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant. New York: HarperCollins.

Aichele, George. 2003. The Poetic Function and the Gospel in/of Mark: a Post-Canonical Reading. (Online here)

Aichele, George. 1992. The Fantastic in the Discourse of Jesus. Semeia 60 (1992), pp. 53-66 (Online here)

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Amador, J.D.H. 1992. Socio-Rhetorical Criticism and the Parable of the Tenants.  Journal for the Study of the New Testament 45(1992), 27-57. (online here)

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Blount, Brian K. 1993. A Socio-Rhetorical Analysis of Simon of Cyrene: Mark 15:21 and its Parallels. Semeia 64: The Rhetoric of Pronouncement, 1993 pp171-200.

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Danove, Paul. 2003. The Rhetoric of the Characterization of Jesus as the Son of Man and Christ in Mark. Biblica 84 (2003) 16-34 (Online at Biblica)

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