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The Pre-Marcan Gospel
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If we are frank, we have no idea whether there was a pre-Marcan Gospel, in the sense of a continuous written account of Jesus. It is widely believed that there was a continuous Passion narrative before Mark, and it is often thought that there were some collections of pericopae, like the controversy stories in 2.1–3.6; but denials that there was a continuous story, in some sense like our Mark, are as weakly supported as assertions of the same. It could be that Friedrich Schleiermacher was right, and that certain διηγ⋯σεις existed before Mark, to which Luke had access. We might think it rather singular that so elaborate a work as Mark should appear de novo, like Athena from the head of Zeus. But we have no evidence to take us beyond conjecture.
Title: The Pre-Marcan Gospel
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If we are frank, we have no idea whether there was a pre-Marcan Gospel, in the sense of a continuous written account of Jesus.
It is widely believed that there was a continuous Passion narrative before Mark, and it is often thought that there were some collections of pericopae, like the controversy stories in 2.
1–3.
6; but denials that there was a continuous story, in some sense like our Mark, are as weakly supported as assertions of the same.
It could be that Friedrich Schleiermacher was right, and that certain διηγ⋯σεις existed before Mark, to which Luke had access.
We might think it rather singular that so elaborate a work as Mark should appear de novo, like Athena from the head of Zeus.
But we have no evidence to take us beyond conjecture.
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