Studies in the Gospel of Mark
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Overview
In this volume, Martin Hengel argues for the traditional view of the origin of the Gospel of Mark—that Mark wrote in Rome in AD 69, basing his work on the tradition handed down to him by Peter. Including an appendix on the reliability of the synoptic tradition by distinguished classical philologist Wolfgang Schadewalt, Studies in the Gospel of Mark is a direct challenge to the radical views of modern New Testament scholarship.
Top Highlights
“Only in suffering does the Marcan Jesus manifest his messianic status in the full sense. Messianic status and representative suffering belong indissolubly together.” (Page 42)
“Mark only reports history which has undergone the deliberate reflection of faith” (Page 38)
“to give an emphatic warning against corruption within the church” (Page 21)
“It should no longer be denied that the ‘recollection’ of the authors (i.e. of their informants and those who handed material on to them) and not primarily the inventive creativity of anonymous early Christian prophets, communities, or even self-confident theological poets, played the normative role in the origin of the Synoptic Gospels. The authors are above all responsible for the selection and ordering of the material and for the linguistic and stylistic form that it is given.” (Page 50)
“Ignatius certainly knows the Gospel of Matthew, and probably also that of John,45 but for him the gospel as a message of salvation is still not firmly bound up with its written form; rather, it forms a living unity the centre of which lies in the passion of Jesus. He says nothing about the authors of the Gospels.” (Page 71)