The link above takes you to the professor's translation, which preserves the flavor of Mark's Greek with all his grammatical mistakes and doesn't interrupt the text with chapter and verse markings, subtitles, or notes. Printed versions clean up these mistakes and provide the various notations, so you might prefer to read those. You'll find this gospel in the recommended textbook, The Complete Gospels; if you didn't buy a copy, you'll find both this book and another copy of the whole Bible on reserve at the Circulation Desk in the library. The Bible is also online; I like the versions at biblia.com (NRSV translation).

If "primary" texts are the original sources from antiquity, "secondary" sources are readings that comment on the primary texts. Secondary readings on the syllabus are articles and books written by contemporary authors. This particular reading is marked "Camino," which means it's on our course Camino page (see the syllabus for how to access that page). You can read it on a computer, or you can check the book out from the Circulation Desk in the library for two hours at a time. A list of all the books from which Camino readings are copied can be found at the Camino link above left.

When a reading is listed like this on the syllabus, with the author's name, an abbreviated title and page numbers, it's a reading in one of the required or recommended textbooks for this class. So this reading is from HJFD, or The Historical Jesus for Dummies. But it's also marked "Optional," so you don't need to read it.

I provide links to the slides I'll be showing in class. You don't have to look at these, but they might be useful, and you might want to print them to bring to class and just add your notes to them.