Kata Markon

["Stephen C. Carlson" <scarlson AT mindspring.com>]

At 02:31 PM 4/9/01 -0500, Ted Weeden wrote:
>When it came to narrate Judas' consummating,
>treacherous act of betrayal, Mark made recourse to the practice of ancient
>authors, namely mimesis---a practice I drew attention to in my post of 3.27
>in my reference to Seneca and Dennis MacDonald's elucidation of this
>practice of mimesis by ancient authors when they transvalued (abstracted
>into other orientations) elements of their sources that they found necessary
>or appropriate to transform for their own ideological purposes.

MacDonald lays out a number of criteria for investigating
mimesis, viz. accessibilty, analogy, density, order,
distinctiveness, and interpretability.  Based on my own
interdisciplinary study of literary dependence with
respect to modern copyright law, I believe that MacDonald
has formulated a good set of criteria.  I'm wondering if
you have thought about these criteria regarding a possible
Markan interaction with 2 Samuel, and, if so, what the
results have been.

Stephen Carlson
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