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  • From: "George W. Young" <gwyoung AT morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
  • To: "Kata Markon" <gmark AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Gospel Creation
  • Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:35:02 -0330


> Parallels to aggadic midrash can be found in the Qumran pesharim. In this
> sense, the pesharim are closer in literary genre to the NT than the later
rabbinic
> Midrashim. A study of the Qumran pesharim as revolving around the TR
rather than Jesus
> is the closest contemporary, or near contemorary, parallel to the NT
aggadic
> style. I would also suggest that the migration of this style from Jewish
> oral tradition to Hellenistic literary tradition is unique to the NT
making Mark
> an historical first in this area.

The link between the 'aggadic style' and GMark only seems limited to Mark's
hermeneutic. But this hermeneutic is subordinated to the larger
iscourses - and ultimately the plot - of a narrative. It functions as a
rhetorical device, i.e., the supporting precedent for a plot and thus a
larger story.

G. Young.





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