Kata Markon

["Professor L.W. Hurtado" <hurtadol AT div.ed.ac.uk>]

Personally, I am not (yet?) able to see a direct *allusion* to the Isa 
22:16 passage and the themes/events there in Mark's description 
of the tomb "cut from rock"; but I could easily imagine that a 
regular reader of the Greek Bible for whom the Greek Bible 
supplied the most prized (only??) example of proper/sacred writing 
style might well use phrasing derived from biblical texts.  That is, 
the use of phrasing from literary sources is not necessarily the 
same thing as an intentional *allusion*.

L. W. Hurtado
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