Solo

You may be mistaken about Mark not being a Jew. If there has been one constant in the Jewish history then it is the intellectual tug of war between the parochial, self-obssessed, exclusionist Judaism, traditionally seated in Israel, mirrored in the hyper-religious communities outside, and the "cosmopolitan", "brotherhood-of-man" anti-thesis that has dominated among the more relaxed Jews of the Diaspora. These are historical constants: they are as true of Mark's time as they are of ours. People on the outside are mostly unaware of this classical internal Jewish divide. The blood curse in Mt 27:25("His blood be on us and our children") speaks to an internal sectarian strife among Jews, not Gentile anti-Jewishness.

Karl Marx's stereotyping of Jews was often quoted by Nazis as the Jews' awareness of their own depravity. (Marx'es grandfather was a rabbi) So were the works of one of the greatest Jewish-German novelists, Leon Feuchtwanger. His novel about a famous 18th century Jewish courtier, Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, was made into perhaps the most notorious Goebbles' propaganda features. Jew Süß was a smashing success, again based on the motif of Jews having no morals (!) and saying it themselves. In case anyone is interested, the whole movie is on YouTube here.

So Mark may well have been a Jew: his command of the scripture looks just too good (to wit: his knowldege of the Abiathar discrepancy btw. 1 Sa 23:6, and 2 Sa 8:17) to have been acquired from the outside of through an unguided self-study.


Possibly, but much more likely that Mark's core constituents were diaspora "cosmo" Jews and Samaritans, who would have latched onto Paul's universalism

Best,
Jiri

Diogenes the Cynic

Why doesn't Mark know anything about Jewish trial procedures (his Sanhedrin trial is about as realistic as an Adam Sandler movie)? Why does he get some of the customs wrong (like mistakenly think Jews wash tables before meals) and why does he think it's blasphemy to claim to be the Messiah?

stephan huller

He doesn't. Look at Clement's summary of the Gospel of Mark.

stephan huller

My mom has always claimed that we are related to both the Marx brothers and Karl Marx via Saarbrucken. As crazy as it sounds I once had a brief conversation with one of the family members who are heirs to the Marks and Spencer chain in the UK who had the same story passed on in their family.

aa5874

Your claim is erroneous. The author of gMark made a MASSIVE error and showed he was unfamiliar with Scripture.


Mark 2:26 KJV It was NOT Abiathar that was the High Priest it was AHIMELECH

1 Samuel 21.1-6 The abundance of evidence suggest the author of gMark was NOT a Jew and was NOT fully aware of Jewish customs, geography and Scripture.

stephan huller

Whatever. The error might have come from a copyist.

aa5874

You have presented a conspiracy theory.

aa5874

I hate to burst your bubble but according to Apologetic sources the author of gMark wrote what Peter told him.

It was Peter that got everything wrong.

Peter was NOT a Jew if gMark is from Peter.


"Against Heresies" 3.1.1 Quite remarkably it was Peter who was NOT AWARE of Jewish customs, the Geography and Hebrew Scripture based on "Against Heresies".

Iskander

Pity , I thought you were having a good time, but it seem that you are another of those ‘suffering servants’ that deprive themselves of legitimate pleasures to redeem those who sin against logic.



Petros was super




The Rock

aa5874

Anabolics can make you look like "CEPHAS" too.