Article More recently, some have argued that Mark modelled their Gospel on the scriptures using the Greco-Roman practice of mimesis (Thomas L. Brodie, The Crucial Bridge: the Elijah-Elisha Narrative as an Interpretive Synthesis of Genesis-Kings and a Literary Model for the Gospels (Collegeville, MN; Liturgical, 2000); Adam Winn, Mark and the Elijah-Elisha Narrative: Considering the…

Article Alan Cadwallader’s paper on the use of the word komopolis by Mark, which seems to support a provenance in the Roman East.

Article Psalm 2 is a royal psalm (Hermann Gunkel, Introduction to the Psalms: The Genres of the Religious Lyric of Israel, ed. Joachim Begrich, trans. James D. Nogalski (1933; Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1998), 99–120; Hans-Joachim Kraus, Psalms 1–59, trans. Hilton C. Oswald, Continental Commentary (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1988), 126. Scholars dispute the number of…

No, Mark never described Jesus as God. In Raymond E. Browns Introduction to New Testament Christology, he lists passages in the Bible into three separate categories: A.) Passages that seem to imply that the title “God” was not used for Jesus B.) Passages where the use of the title “God” for Jesus is dubious C.)…

Peter’s stay in Rome has not been factually established. Critical scholarship on the Gospel of Mark has shown, rather, that the redacted traditions derive from the previously existing oral, and possibly also written, traditions about Jesus, and much less likely from the public teachings of Peter. Even the occasional Latinisms found in the Gospel of…

Hypertextuality and Pauline trad w/ gMark German scholar supported the idea that gMark was used for the apology of Paul. gMark using Paul’s letters Mk 1:9 (cf. Gal 1:13-14): Mk 8:1-21 (cf. 1 Cor 1:1-31): Mk 14:1-25 (cf. Phlp 1:1-18): gMark using Josephus **The use of Mark 1.1-8 w/ Josephus:**> – Accordingly, in comparison to…

The Literary Context of Isaiah 40.3 The Literary Contexts of Exodus 23:20 and Malachi 3:1

“Mark 5:1, 13 betrays confusion about the distance of Gerasa from the Sea of Galilee (n. 17 above). Mark 7:31 describes a journey from Tyre through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee in the midst of the Decapolis. In fact one goes SE from Tyre to the Sea of Galilee; Sidon is N of Tyre,…

CONTEXT (PARALLELS WITH OTHER TALES/GRECO-ROMAN)“Stranger, you are no longer what you were just now! Your cloak is new, even your skin! You are one of the gods who rule the sweep of heaven!” The noble and enduring man replied: “I am no god; τί μ᾽ ἀθανάτοισιν ἐΐσκεις” (“why liken me to the immortals?”)Though also see…

The author of Mark is anonymous, Eduard Schweizer says: “He is Hardly to be identified with Mark mentioned in Acts, Philemon, Colossians, Timothy, since he does not seem to know the geography of Palestine. Furthermore, he writes in a very polemical way against Jewish customs”