Kata Markon

["Rikki E. Watts" <rwatts AT interchange.ubc.ca>]

Karel,

Just a quick comment.  You are right to ask the genre question; but I'm not
sure what you mean by midrash.  I think either on this list or Xlist it's
been fairly well established that midrash (i.e. Jewish interpretation of
scripture) is not an appropriate term to use.  The question, as always, is
which of the genres open to him is Mark using?  If Mark is not midrash then
what is it?

Regards
Rikk

on 26/4/01 1:31 PM, Karel Hanhart at K.Hanhart AT net.HCC.nl wrote:

> Kata Markon digest wrote:Subject: Comparative analysis
> 
>> From: "Sid Martin" <smartin AT webzone.net>
>> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:15:56 -0500
>> X-Message-Number: 1
> 
> Thank you for your remarks on comparative analysis. The metaphor of a jury 
> is
> well taken, of course. You wrote:
> " Outside of math and logic, of course,
> there really is no such thing as "proof".  What we call proof is simply
> evidence that someone finds convincing.   Who it is that must be convinced,
> and how convinced they must be, is an open question.  That is why we have
> juries.  The jurors are the only ones whose opinion matters.  In the world
> of scholarship, unfortunately, there are no juries, and nothing is ever
> really "proven".  Even scholarly consensus is a poor guide to conviction.
> In the field of Bible scholarship particularly, consensus shifts with the
> fashions of the day."
> 
> However, internal evidence still is a powerful vehicle to sway a jury. In my
> own
> case
> I've asked myself, does my new proposed interpretation of Mark's open tomb
> story offer an acceptable solution to certain puzzling passages in Mark 
> itself
> and in Matthew, Luke of John which heretofore were regarded as a 'crux
> interpretum'. If that were the case concerning
> a sufficient number of texts, a jury may decide that the later authors (Mt,
> Lk,
> Jn) had indeed
> understood Mark's climactic witness along  the same lines as the newly 
> offered
> interpretation.
> This is here not the place to defend that I didnot merely follow "the 
> fashion
> of
> the day".
> But in my book, - I apologize for again referring to it -, I believe I have
> found solutions to such 'cruces' as  Mk 1,2; 1,32.33; 3,6; Mt 16,16-18 and
> 28,1;
> Acts 1,15-26; John 2,21;  10,7; 11,1-54.  I would be interested to hear your
> 
> reaction as a juror.
> Re. the question of 'genre', would you agree that Mark wrote a midrash at 
> the
> conclusion of his [Christian-Judean] Passover Haggadah or where do you think
> this approach is not germaine to
> his Gospel?
> 
> your Karel Hanhart     K.Hanhart AT net.HCC.nl
> 
> 
> 
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