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I am not talking about Mark but rather pMark.

Ben, You are clear that I am talking about pMark and that it ended in 15:39, correct? I think I have argued that essential elements in terms of characterization and plot as characteristic of Greek tragedy are found in pMark: nobility of the protagonist, his harmatia, his suffering, peripetia (plot r...

Ben, You are right. pMark is unlike an Aristotlean tragedy in that it is narrative in form. Thus, I would have to refine my thesis to say that we have a narrative form that contains essential elements of an "Aristotlean" Tragedy. Perhaps we should simply label pMark simply as a "Trage...

I subscribe to the theory of pMark, an earlier version of the Gospel to which Mark has made various expansions. Some exampl are 3:20 [22-30] 31-34; 6:7-13 [14-29] 30; 2:18 [19-20] 21-22; 9:33-37 [38-41] 42; 14:1-2 [3-9] 10-11. Perhaps the most important finding is that PN and pMark concluded at 15:3...