arnoldo wrote:What of Marcion's gospel which allegedly had no birth narrative?maryhelena wrote: Historicists attempt to add up all the possible gospel dates for the birth and crucifixion to get one date for their assumed historical Jesus. What that approach does is to deny each gospel it's place in the Jesus story. On issues of birth narrative and crucifixion dating each gospel should be allowed to tell it's own story. If that is done then arguments re historicity of Jesus become devoid of any relevance for a search for early christian origins.
Whatever, re Marcion's gospel.....
I'm attempting to deal with the four gospels we do have. That gMark is the only one of the synoptic gospels to not have a birth narrative is interesting.....Perhaps, that missing birth narrative is the birth narrative now in Slavonic Josephus....The gMark story being set pre 30 c.e. would leave it open to such a connection....Perhaps it's that connection with the Slavonic Josephus story that left the gospel of Mark ''the odd one out'' and thus, seemingly, not being a popular gospel in the early days of Christian writers...
- ''Not only did Mark fail to have much of an impact in the early centuries, the explicit Patristic comments on the origins of this Gospel suggest that they did not quite know what to make of it.''
- Why Did the Gospel of Mark Survive?