Weill-Raynal: 3 reasons why Mark precedes Mcn (and vice versa)

[Giuseppe]

I am reading Les puzzle des evangiles (1970), of the French mythicist Guy Fau.

Talking about the question of the Marcionite priority (it seems that Fau would agree with M. Klinghardt: Marcion used a Mcn written before him), he quotes, in order to confute him, 3 reasons by a Weill-Raynal (La chronologie des évangiles, chap. 4, Ration. 1968) to date Mcn after Mark, even if WR thinks that Mcn precedes Matthew and Luke.


a) some passages in Mcn (the 15° year of Tiberius, the supper with the pharisiens, the Lazarus and the rich, the apparition before Herod) would be ignored without reason by Mark, if Mark was after Mcn.

b) the parallelisms between Mcn and Mark support Mark's priority and not Mcn's priority.

c) Coming Mcn from the East (just as Marcion), it would be strange that the Roman "Mark" (author) would have used a Gospel came from the east.



THe reasons for Marcionite priority over Mark, for Guy Fau, are:

1) the anti-Judaism in Mark betrayes Marcionite influence.

2) the words of Jesus "vade retro, satana", against the words "tu es Christus" of Peter, are better explained by Marcion appealing Paul, who called the Pillars "agents of Satan" insofar they were preaching a Judaizing gospel of Satan disguised as an angel. 2 Cor 11:14: And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light
So only satanic apostles could preach that Jesus was the Jewish Christ.

3) the denial of the his mother and brothers by Jesus in Mark would be hateful, whereas it is morally legitimate by a marcionite Jesus really without biological brothers and mother as descended from heaven.

4) the marcionite Christ could proclaim himself as superior to David, whereas it remains forever enigmatic how in Mark the Jewish Christ could do so.

5) Only the anti-YHWH Marcion could explain "no one is good, but only God", since only the his Alien God was really good, not the demiurge.