Kata Markon

["Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000 AT attbi.com>]

JFAlward AT aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 12/27/01 12:48:53 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> tonyprete AT earthlink.net writes:
>
> << What I think does necessitate an "excuse me" is a post that announces a
>  topic, then asks for references (such as the one below that started this
>  thread--though it's hardly the first). Isn't that what libraries--and
>  librarians--and for? Special circumstances may necessitate otherwise, but
>  authors should state this, rather than appear to be asking others to do
>  their research for them.
>
>  > > one of my former students is now writing a thesis on the literary =
>  > > funtion of the parables in the gospel of mark. are you aware of books 
> or
> =
>  > > articles that may be helpful for her?
>   >>
> ==========
> My goodness; such selfishness I've not seen in a long time.  Are we now not
> allowed to ask for help on this forum?  It's one thing to ask someone 
> to--for
> example--locate all of the Old Testament antecedents of a gospel story, and
> another thing altogether to make a simple request for references that might
> come immediately to the minds of helpful correspondents.  This forum is--in
> part--about helping others, or have I had the wrong impression all along?
>

No, you have not had the wrong impression.

But Kata Markon is **not** a Mark 101 List. Since, as the Kata Markon List
Description notes,  the List is intended to be a forum for the exchange of 
views
on matters Markan among **professionals and graduate students** in the field 
of
Biblical Studies, and in Markan studies in particular,  it really isn't
(ordinarily) the best place to moot  Mark 101 questions.  It is the perception
that the question on basic parable bibliography was such a question which (I'm
assuming) engendered the response to which you object.

Yours,

Jeffrey Gibson


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