Kata Markon

[phil AT sedona.net (Philip B Lewis)]

Mike Parsons of Baylor responded to George Young:
>Perhaps we have reached the end of productivity on this thread (evidenced
by the fact that no one else is chiming in).
>
Let me chime in to add another complication for our understanding of GMark.

Several authorities have, specifically LaGrange, have identified the Walking
on Water tradition (less vs.52) as a resurrection appearance.  As such, the
"phantasm" is the figure of the Risen Lord, according to the tradition, whom
the disciples assume was dead! That is to say, Mark had sources to which he
turned for his material.  One was the resurrection appearance in a Passion
Source which we find here.  Mark had a USE for the story namely, to present
Jesus as the Angelos who goes before us, just as the Angelos of Exodus went
before Israel to lead them to the place God had prepared for them.  This
"mythical role", Mark is saying, was beyond the understanding of the
disciples.  They "could not understand about the loaves," thus tying the
apparition account with the Bread Theme Mark is developing.

Chew on that crust for a while.  It's good bread.

Philip
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