Chris Weimer

What Markan text do you use? How do you account for possible interpolations? Also, how do you account for Secret Mark, although a case can be made that it was not intentionally supposed to be with Mark for the average reader, thus never included, but only added onto it made some higher sense.

S.C.Carlson

John Dart, Decoding Mark (Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity, 2003), tried to fit Secret Mark into his chiastic analysis, but he needed to conjecture that a later editor of Mark had substituted Mark 10:1 for lost some verses now found in Luke 9:51-56 for his chiasms to work out.

Rather than conjecture changes to the text of Mark, a better course of action would have been to realize that his analysis provides another reason why Secret Mark was based on the canonical Mark. Scholarship had already reached this conclusion on other grounds. See, e.g., Scott G. Brown, "On the Composition History of the Longer ('Secret') Gospel of Mark," JBL 122 (2003): 89-110, for a decent summary of the reasons why.

Stephen

Vorkosigan

Yup. That's what I concluded. Although part of the problem was that Dart had erred in his analysis of the structure of Markan chiasms.

Vorkosigan

S.C.Carlson

Two book reviews of John Dart's Decoding Mark are found at: http://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetai...&CodePage=4063