Kata Markon

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

Hudson Burton wrote;

> ...Luke and John go to great pains to establish their gospels as factual
> (Luke i.1) and as being "real" (Jn xix.35).  They are clearly
> concerned that the gospel(s) might be read as nothing more than myth.

This presumes that a first century audience might 'naturally' have read the
gospel narratives as 'myth.'  Do Luke and John betray a covert anxiety to
ward off what the reading conventions of their gospels might naturally
invoke?

G. Young