Kata Markon

["George W. Young" <gwyoung AT morgan.ucs.mun.ca>]

> 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.