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Joel Marcus is professor of New Testament and Christian origins at Duke Divinity School. Marcus teaches New Testament with an emphasis on the Gospels and the context of early Christianity within Judaism. His publications include two monographs on Mark, a two-volume commentary on the same Gospel in the Anchor Bible series (2000, 2009), Jesus and the Holocaust: Reflections on Suffering and Hope (1997), John the Baptist in History and Theology (2018), and several articles about the parting of the ways between Judaism and the Christianity of the first three centuries of the Christian era. Before joining Duke in 2001 he held teaching positions at Boston University School of Theology, the University of Glasgow, and Princeton Theological Seminary, as well as visiting appointments at Hebrew University and University of Oslo. Marcus holds a B.A. from New York University and M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Columbia University-Union Theological Seminary.