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  • From: SCHunnicut AT aol.com
  • To: gmark AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: The glory of the Lord
  • Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 08:14:44 EST


In reference to the "glory of the Lord" posts. I am thinking about Werner
Kelber's treatment of the two boat journeys, and the healings that take place
more or less on the shores of the sea of Galilee. Kelber argues that
geographic references identify these journeys as trips back and forth between
Jewish and Gentile territories, with every miracle in one place balanced by a
miracle in the other. (The Kingdom in Mark) If you understand the journeys
in this way, it makes the discomfort of Jesus' Jewish disciples in the boat
more understandable, as well as the statement that "the disciples did not
understand about the loaves, for their hearts were hardened," after the
comment that they had "only one loaf." Also compare the statement that Jesus
was asleep in the boat in the storm with a similar scene in the story of
Jonah and the whale, when Jonah has refused to go on mission to the Gentiles.
I am not looking up verses here, as I have a busy schedule this week. But
then, at the end of the gospel, Jesus returns "to Galilee", the place where
he has told the disciples to meet him, and there is that open endedness as to
whether the disciples will ever receive the women's message. All through the
story, fear is the issue. Galilee seems to be the place where the door is
first opened to the Gentiles, in Jesus' own ministry. The disciples are
there, and they are troubled.
About the Ezekial passage, I will have to defer to others. But if the "glory
of the Lord" is where Jesus is, then Mark already has it breaking through the
confines of the Jewish ethos and worldview, in the journeys of Jesus himself.
The disciples are clearly troubled. All of this, it seems to me, would have
been pretty understandable (and scandalous/ gracious) to "Mark's"
contemporaries, even if it comes into focus slowly for us.
SusanHunnicutt
Leslie Congregational U.C.C.
Leslie, Michigan



  • The glory of the Lord, SCHunnicut, 12/19/2000

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