Proto-Mark == Mark without Passion Story
Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2020 10:46 pm
Mark 13:33-37:
...has any air of being the original ending of proto-Mark.
The current ending in Mark 16:8 raises agan the theme of surprise.
What is more, Luke seems to be based on Mark only until Mark 13:37. After that point, Luke doesn't follow more Mark.
In my view, the Strongest Argument to consider the Passion story not of the same author of proto-Mark, is that before Mark 14:1 any little episode finds his explicative reason singularly in itself, while after 14:1, you can't more to divide the Passion story in single pieces: you have to read it entirely to decipher fully any his single piece
I wonder if this Argument can be extended to see the original ending of proto-Mark even before, at the end of Transfiguration episode, since only from that point the reader is informed about the future death in (earthly) Jerusalem, hence he can realize it only if he is already aware about the content of the Passion story.
33 Be on guard! Be alert! You do not know when that time will come. 34 It’s like a man going away: He leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with their assigned task, and tells the one at the door to keep watch.
35 “Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back—whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn. 36 If he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping. 37 What I say to you, I say to everyone: ‘Watch!’”
35 “Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back—whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn. 36 If he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping. 37 What I say to you, I say to everyone: ‘Watch!’”
...has any air of being the original ending of proto-Mark.
The current ending in Mark 16:8 raises agan the theme of surprise.
What is more, Luke seems to be based on Mark only until Mark 13:37. After that point, Luke doesn't follow more Mark.
In my view, the Strongest Argument to consider the Passion story not of the same author of proto-Mark, is that before Mark 14:1 any little episode finds his explicative reason singularly in itself, while after 14:1, you can't more to divide the Passion story in single pieces: you have to read it entirely to decipher fully any his single piece
I wonder if this Argument can be extended to see the original ending of proto-Mark even before, at the end of Transfiguration episode, since only from that point the reader is informed about the future death in (earthly) Jerusalem, hence he can realize it only if he is already aware about the content of the Passion story.