On the movie "Persian Lessons" and "Mark" (author)

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Giuseppe
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On the movie "Persian Lessons" and "Mark" (author)

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Seeing with great pleasure the good movie "Persian Lessons"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Lessons

...the comparison is born naturally in my mind between what the actor of the story, the so-called 'Reza', does in the movie, and what "Mark" (author) did: to invent an entire entity of paper on his table, to save himself in a tragic moment.

The comparison may help to explain why Mark appears to me both anti-Roman and pro-Roman in the same time.
schillingklaus
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Re: On the movie "Persian Lessons" and "Mark" (author)

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Mark's gospel, like everything in the NT, is late patchwork and contains nothing original by any stretch.
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