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...I am just curious where your future research will lead you... Walsh's current gMark manuscript project will feature the shared Middle Platonic Greek words that occur in Paul & gMark. And will present the milieu for when these terms were used. Walsh has previously noted that Paul is aware of ...

I wonder how many of the OT quotes are original to the core and how many were added by a later hand? If any? What we found is that Proto-Mark was roughly one third of the length of canonical Mark. It’s roughly the size of 1 Corinthians or Hebrews and lacks a significant portion of the miracles and ...

John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. [...] {{And He was in the wilderness for forty days, being tempted by Satan [...] }} If seems that JtB-gMark as Isaiah (who declares that Israel is God's unfaithful bride) ques up Jewish wate...

You'll have to forgive me as I'm apparently going through a hyper fixation on the book of Mark right now, and what it might have looked like in earlier stages. In gMark—Jewish scriptures (perhaps many then extant & now lost to history, but intrinsic to gMark) were not used as an attempt to demo...

You'll have to forgive me as I'm apparently going through a hyper fixation on the book of Mark right now, and what it might have looked like in earlier stages. Name (in order of presentation) Mentions by name (3:20–16:8) Base Name Modifier Cognomen Cognomen given by Jesus "Church Pillars"...

Aramaic: **כֵּיפָא** transliterates to **Kēp̄ā** **Kēp̄ā** is pronounced approximately as **keh-fah** "Saharakab son of Cepha - שהרעקב בר כפא " . elephantine.smb.museum . [hr] Is there any prior to 50 CE non-hebrew attestation of keph, kēp̄ā, etc. for meaning rock, stone, building materia...

I'm very confident now that indeed James was the original betrayer.... And Simon "Peter" the "rocky soil" is a Markan production? I'm initially (till proven wrong) confident that assuming Kēp̄ā pronounced approximately as **keh-fah**—being extant pre-50 CE in Aramaic for rock/st...

Hebrew has כֵּף (keph) meaning rock https://biblehub.com/hebrew/3710.htm Classical Syriac also has ܟܐܦܐ (kēp̄ā, “stone, rock”) Hebrew: select speaker icon to hear כֵפִֽ כֵּף @ https://translate.google.com/?sl=iw&tl=en&text=כֵּף%0Aכֵפִֽ%0A Aramaic: **כֵּיפָא** transliterates to **Kēp̄ā** **K...

nb. ἐγὼ μέν εἰμι Παύλου is emphatic: ἐγὼ - egō - as a Greek 1st person pronoun is emphatic (given Greek verb structures), as is μέν - 'men' - as a particle of affirmation, ie. meaning 'truly,' 'certainly,' 'surely,' 'indeed,' +/- other things εἰμι - eimi - is often translated 'is' or 'am' eg., eimi...

I wonder if Κηφᾶ here meant a person [...] * it may be more correct to say Jesus was portrayed as playing the role of a concept or the role of a named concept (or entity) Perhaps Κηφᾶς/Kifás is the role of a named concept, executive apparatus, etc. (since Kifás/Peter are not previously attested nam...