Kata Markon

["James Crossley" <crossleyjames AT hotmail.com>]

Many comments have been made linking the flight of the naked young man to 
various other external texts or passages within Mark.  Only a little 
consideration has been given to this reflecting an actual event in Jesus' 
ministry. The assumption, it seems, among many people on this list is that 
the episode is fiction. But the passage could easily make sense in the 
historic ministry and may have been recorded do emphasise the dangerous 
situation,  if indeed Mark had to have an explicit reason  anyway!  This 
does not have to be the case of course and Mark may have had some kind of 
haggadic tradition.  It is very difficult to know precisely. The point is, 
and this applies generally to synoptic studies,  is that so much is assumed 
to be secondary without actually demonstrating the case. Personally I 
couldn't care less if ii is secondary or not but I think there are serious 
methodological problems underlying this discussion.

James Crossley
University of Nottingham

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