Why Joseph doesn't appear in Mark (answer: because of Marcion)

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Giuseppe
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Why Joseph doesn't appear in Mark (answer: because of Marcion)

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I have read somewhere that Joseph doesn't appear in Mark despite of the fact that he is assumed as father of Jesus, since the his absence on the scene reflects the remote distance of YHWH (true father) from Jesus (a distance interrupted only by the holy spirit).

This is also the reason Joseph of Arimathea alludes to Joseph (as father of Jesus) without being really him (not only, therefore, because he is Josephus).


I wonder if this remote distance of the celestial father (YHWH), reflected in the absence of the earthly father (Joseph) in Mark, is also a debt to Marcion: the heresiarch preached indeed that the Father of Jesus was totally Unknown, an Alienus Deus.

The legacy of Marcion is found also in the absence/presence of Joseph father of Jesus, in Mark, Matthew and Luke.
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