Abstract
This article delineates a diverse array of examples from literary, critical and theoretical cultures of the reception and appropriation of the Gospel of Mark. Writers discussed include, inter alia, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Melville, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Heidegger, Lacan, Simone Weil, Harold Bloom, Burton L.
Mack and Rowan Williams. Problems of faith, of reception, of misrecognition and of worldly values are also addressed.