Kata Markon

[JFAlward AT aol.com]

In a message dated 3/14/01 10:21:56 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
larry.swain AT wmich.edu writes:


> how do we connect the one scene of the young man running away nude with a 
> scene in which he is at the
> tomb BEFORE everyone else and giving instructions of such a nature that 
> everyone, women and apostles, do as he says?  Perhaps I'm just 
> obtuse.........
>
> Larry Swain

I don't think so. The young man at the tomb is angelic, while the one at the 
arrest scene is a shamed coward; the two couldn't be connected.

I still say Mark symbolized Jerusalem's cowardice and shame with the flight 
of the naked man, and that this man has nothing to do with the one at the 
tomb.  As for the man at the tomb, Mark may have wished for us to believe he 
was an angel, or perhaps Jesus' ghost, but that's pure speculation and is 
without Old Testament antecedent as far as I know.


Joe Alward