A History of Codex Bezae’s Text in the Gospel of Mark

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter E. Lorenz
Keyword(s):  
Gospel Of Mark ◽  
History Of

Oral History and the Beginning and End of the Gospel of Mark

2019 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-37
Author(s):  
Ben Chenoweth
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Gospel Of Mark ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
History Of

The textual status of Mark’s Gospel, specifically the fact that the beginning and end of this gospel were lost at a very early stage, sheds light on the period of time when the stories concerning Jesus’s ministry, death, and resurrection were being transmitted orally. It is proposed that during this time the oral history of Jesus came to include an overarching ‘gospel’ structure, and that Mark’s Gospel is essentially a snapshot of this oral history, marginally altered as Mark personally retold the account of Jesus within the bounds permitted by those exercising control over the oral history. Support for these interrelated proposals comes from the fact that Mark’s Gospel sustained damage and was not immediately repaired: it was not seen as replacing the oral history of the eyewitnesses. However, later (when the eyewitnesses were dying out) Mark’s Gospel was rescued, copied, and circulated, but only in its already damaged form.

The Gospel of Mark, Orality Studies and Performance Criticism

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 350-393
Author(s):  
Pieter J.J. Botha
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Gospel Of Mark ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
Jesus Movement ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Performance Criticism ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Performance Events ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Performance

Abstract Orality/aurality is recognised by a growing number of scholars as a significant aspect of the context of New Testament texts. As part of the exploration of the oral features of New Testament texts some are turning to Greco-Roman storytelling and oratory, informed by performance studies. A selection of these explorations are discussed to introduce scholarship that attempts to identify various elements of performance events in the early church as a basis for re-thinking our ways of studying and our interpretations of the New Testament writings in their original context. The obstacles to such efforts are considerable, but some significant gains have been made. Focusing on research on the Gospel of Mark, this discussion shows how performance critical studies allow new insights into the origins of the Gospels, leading to interesting new and meaningful perspectives on the history of the early Jesus movement with specific attention to the role telling and presenting the Markan story played.

Recently discovered materials for writing the history of christian Nubia

1975 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 19-30
Author(s):  
William Frend
Keyword(s):  
Gospel Of Mark ◽  
Dead Sea Scrolls ◽  
Dead Sea ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Nag Hammadi ◽  
Clement Of Alexandria ◽  
History Of ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes

Chance discoveries have been among the ‘uncovenanted blessings’ that have fallen to the study of new testament times and the early church. The finding of the Isaiah scroll by a shepherd boy in the judaean desert in 1947 led to the greatest discovery in biblical studies of all time, that of the Dead Sea scrolls and the essene monastery of Kharbet Q’mran. Similarly, the recovery of the gnostic library of 48 separate books from a Christian cemetery at Nag-Hammadi, not far from Luxor, in 1946, has thrown a wholly unexpected light on the complex of beliefs and attitudes of orthodox Christianity’s great rival during the second and early third centuries, gnosticism. Recently, professor Morton Smith has made the boldest claims on behalf of a ‘secret Gospel of Mark’ used apparently in Alexandria in the second century AD. An extract from this gospel he found in the library of the monastery of Mar Saba near Jerusalem, quoted in a letter which may be attributed correctly to Clement of Alexandria circa 190 AD.

Mark's Gospel in Recent Research

1978 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 353-368
Author(s):  
Howard Clark Kee
Keyword(s):  
Gospel Of Mark ◽  
History Of

The history of recent research on the Gospel of Mark can be seen as the record of an attempt to discern the aim of the Evangelist and so to discover the perspective which gives coherence to all the features of the Second Gospel.

scholarly journals Eskatologi dalam Injil Markus

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
Nurnilam Sarumaha
Keyword(s):  
Gospel Of Mark ◽  
World History ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
Specific Nature ◽  
New Era ◽  
Son Of Man ◽  
Death Of Jesus ◽  
History Of ◽  
End Times ◽  
The Temple

This article discusses the eschatology (end times) in the perspective of the Gospel of Mark. This topic is not contained in the other chapters in the book of Mark, rather than just in Mark 13: 1-37. Mark 13: 1-37 , featuring a view of the history in which the crisis and persecution at this age will pave the way for a future. It draws from the passage is an introduction to the understanding of eschatology, beginning with the statement of a disciple of Jesus about the temple (13:1) and the response of the Lord Jesus spoke of the events still in the future (eschatology) and at the same time talking about events imminent (the collapse of the temple). Both events are discussed simultaneously, as if the two events occur at the same time. In this paper, the two events referred to as a dual prophecy of the Lord Jesus. In Mark 13, the Lord Jesus spoke of the end of world history has begun. The period between the sufferings and death of Jesus until His coming the second time is the final phase of the history of the old times, before the start of a new era that is, when the Son of Man comes in all his glory. The phase between the two ages was marked by signs or events, both general and specific nature

scholarly journals Questioning Divine δεῖ

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-54
Author(s):  
Peter-Ben Smit
Keyword(s):  
Gospel Of Mark ◽  
Salvation History ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Divine Will ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Scholarship ◽  
Do So

AbstractFrequently, δεῖ is associated with salvation history and the exercise of divine will and identified as “theological δεῖ” or “divine δεῖ”. In the history of scholarship, there is an increasing emphasis on interpreting δεῖ along these lines, thereby marginalizing other shades of meaning that this verb may have. The question is whether this course of interpretative action is justified. This will be tested in this article. In order to do so, first a brief overview of the possible shades of meaning of δεῖ will be provided; second, the occurrences of δεῖ in the Gospel of Mark are systematically reviewed; third and finally, concluding reflections will be offered, including a word of caution when it comes to deifying δεῖ. In this manner, the current study seeks to contribute to the undoing of the theosis of this particular part of early Christian vocabulary.

scholarly journals Two Studies of the Gospel of Mark

1913 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-239
Author(s):  
Carl S. Patton
Keyword(s):  
Literary History ◽  
Gospel Of Mark ◽  
History Of ◽  
Constituent Elements

The current essays to disentangle the literary history of the material which now forms our Gospel of Mark were described in an article by Professor Moulton in a recent number of this Review. Of the attempts to solve the problem there mentioned two seem plausible enough to warrant fuller exposition in these pages. They are the reconstructions by which Professor Hermann von Soden, of Berlin, and Professor Emil Wendling, of Zabern, have tried to resolve our Gospel into its constituent elements.

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