Kata Markon

["Ted Weeden" <weedent AT atw.earthreach.com>]

Philip.

 

Thank you for your feedback on my post, "Guidelines for locating the Markan Community."   Two points in your response need clarification.

 

First, you note:

On February 29 Ted Weeden wrote an interesting post on "Guidelines for locating the Markan community." At one point, listing places with which Mark seems most familiar, he said:

>They are (1) Jerusalem and its surrounding area, which
includes such named places as Bethany, Bethphage, the Mount of Olives and
the Garden of Gethsemane and (2) places on the northern rim of the Sea of
Galilee, which include Capernaum, Gennersaret, Bethsaida and Dalmanutha and
the route northward from Bethsaida to Caesarea Philippi.<

Actually, I was referring to Chapman's list at that point.   I am aware of the problem with identifying, much less locating "Dalmanutha."   Whether it is really Magdala is anyone's guess.   My own position is that Mark knows best the geography around the northern part of the "Sea of Galilee" and the road northward from Bethsaida to Caesarea Philippi.   As an aside, I am amazed that Mark mentions no Galilean community west of the Sea of Galilee, except Nazareth.  Luke mentions Nain;  John, Cana, but Mark's only reference west of the Sea of Galilee is Nazareth.  Strange.

Second, you commend me with this statement:

"Ted is to be commended for pointing out that the Sayings Source, Q, probably originated in the Galilee, as GMark may have also."   

I wish I could claim credit for locating Q in Galilee.   But I cannot.   I believe that you will find that in my post I credited Richard Horsley and Jonathan Draper with locating Q in Galilee.  Dom Crossan also places the Q community there.

Ted Weeden