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  • From: JFAlward AT aol.com
  • To: gmark AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark
  • Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:57:13 EST


In a message dated 1/26/01 9:26:48 AM Pacific Standard Time,
rwatts AT interchange.ubc.ca writes:

<< What exactly are these flags if they cannot be "Homeric vocabulary,
characterizations, motifs, and episodes"? And one wonders what kind of
flags these can be, if the very people, one presumes, for whom Mark was
leaving these 'scores of flags' quite utterly failed to see them? It raises
another question for me: who provides the best data for determining what
ancient readers would have seen: the good professor or the ancients
themselves?

Rikk >>
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The first question doesn't have to be answered in the abstract; just observe
the suggested parallels and decide whether they exist, or not. There are
nine articles which support MacDonald's analysis, and one which is virtually
a 100% of all of his claims ("Loaves and Fishes") at
http://members.aol.com/jalw/joseph_alward.html
It won't matter whether the ancients saw the parallels or not; if you can see
them, that's all that should matter to you.

The second question has already been answered by me, I think, in a previous
post. All things being equal, however, it's obvious that the ancients would
be in a better position to observe and interpret any possible parallel of
Mark to Homer. But, all things aren't equal.




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