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  • From: cvveelen AT ichthus.lifenet.nl (Cees van Veelen)
  • To: b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Mark 16
  • Date: Wed, 19 Aug 98 09:57:28 GMT


Internet: cvveelen AT ichthus.lifenet.nl

>> Does anybody have any strong reasons for accepting or rejecting GAR as
>> the last work of S Mark's gospel? Presumably most people accept the
>> evidence of other Gk works ending with the word (Menander: Dyskolos
>> etc) which Richardson gives in his Bibliography? I would be
>> interested in any thoughts on this.

BGd> I've never seen any convincing reason to reject it, since (a)
BGd> EFOBOUNTO is a complete subject-predicate unit in itself; (b) GAR is
BGd> postpositive; and (c) GAR is properly used to indicate an
BGd> explanatory function of EFOBOUNTO to the preceding OUDENI OUDEN
BGd> EIPAN. Conquently, although there may be objections to the pericope
BGd> as a conclusion to the gospel, I cannot discern any cogent reason to
BGd> reject EFOBOUNTO GAR as the end of this pericope.

One could compare this verse of Mark with LXX Genesis 18:15, where the
sentence ends halfway with the words EFOBHTH GAR .(full stop).
In a way the easter story has something in common with the promise of the
birth of Isaac: There are heavenly messagers, there is lack of faith to
begin with, it is about the life of a son/Son - I like to think Mark had
Genesis 18 in his mind when he wrote the last chapter of his gospel.

Cees van Veelen
Email: cvveelen AT ichthus.lifenet.nl



  • Mark 16, Cees van Veelen, 08/20/1998

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