Kata Markon

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

Professor Hurtado

Thank you for the bibliographic references. I shall access them and look
forward to yours and others contributions on these critical Markan matters.

Ted Weeden

----- Original Message -----
From: Professor L.W. Hurtado <hurtadol AT div.ed.ac.uk>
To: Kata Markon <gmark AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 4:55 AM
Subject: [gmark] Re: Peter's Denial


> I would agree that the handling of Peter's denial in Mark is to some
> real extent the work of the author. But I don't think that the notion
> that Mark's aim was simple denegration of Peter (and the 12)
> stands up to the full range of evidence in the gospel.  Mark's
> sandwiching of Peter's denial/apostasy with Jesus' positive role-
> model of behavior under interrogation in chap 14, is most plausibly
> seen as providing both positive & negative role models for
> Christians under trial, and also shows that apostasy can be
> forgiven (well before his apostasy it is predicted by Jesus, along
> with the desertion of him by all the 12, and is prophetically
> overcome in Jesus' promise in 14:26-31).
> See, e.g., my brief treatment in my essay "Following Jesus in the
> Gospel of Mark--and Beyond," in _Patterns of Discipleship in the
> NT_, ed. R.N. Longenecker (Grand Rapids:  Eerdmans, 1996), pp.
> 9-29; and the essays listed there, esp. Philip Davies, "Christology,
> Discipleship, ans SElf-Understanding in the Gospel of Mark," in
> _Self-Definition and Self-Discovery in Early Christianity_ eds. David
> Hawkin, Thos. Robinson (Lewiston:  Mellen, 1990), 101-19.
>
> L. W. Hurtado
> University of Edinburgh,
> New College
> Mound Place
> Edinburgh, Scotland EH1 2LX
> Phone: 0131-650-8920
> Fax: 0131-650-6579
> E-mail:  L.Hurtado AT ed.ac.uk
>
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