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  • From: "Karel Hanhart" <k.hanhart AT net.hcc.nl>
  • To: "Synoptic-L elist" <Synoptic AT yahoogroups.com>, "Ron Price" <ron.price AT virgin.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [GMark] [Synoptic-L] The structure of the archetype of Mark (was: A Reconstruction ofthe Pre-Markan PassionNarrative)
  • Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:14:40 +0200

 
----- Original Message -----
From: Ron Price
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 12:28 PM
Subject: [Synoptic-L] The structure of the archetype of Mark (was: A Reconstruction ofthe Pre-Markan PassionNarrative)

Bruce Brooks wrote:

> Is there an online, or other accessible, version of his reconstructed
> archetype of Mark?

No. So here it is, based on the NA27 Greek text less 9:12b; 14:28; 14:61b-64
and 16:7, all of which have the hallmarks of interpolations.

The structure is a hierarchy with up to 3 levels. Indentations in the
section titles are intended to indicate levels in the hierarchy, but the
levels can be worked out from the chap:vers range after each title.

Lets pp

1235 1 Introduction to the "gospel" 1:1-15 framed
The Galilean ministry 1:16-8:26
5561 4 The call to break with old ways 1:16-3:6 framed

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Bruce,

I wonder what makes you judge 1,16 - 3,6 to be "framed". Doesn't that make 3,7 to be somewhat independamt from 3,6?  To me the two verses are inextrably connected as the climax of the controversy narratives.

1) In my view the Greek for resurrection Sunday 'en miai ton sabbaton' should be translated, "On Day One of Shaboth". Mark knows the difference between the singular sabbatton and the plural sabbata (as in 16,2) for the seven weeks of Shabuoth, that is the Feast of Weeks or Harvest Festival. 'Miai' is a cardinal and the 50 days were actually counted; heve Day One (Lev 23,15). The first day of Shavuoth was always a Sunday on Mark's calendar in accordance to Lev 23,10.15. The Christians refused to follow the newly introduced Pharisaic calendar, probably in 41 CE, according to which Nisan 16 would become 'Day One of the harvest'.     In Mark's Gospel this Nisan 16 was the day of the burial ! of Jesus.

2) Since in Mark the plural sabbata stands for Shavuoth, that is the Feast of Weeks, the plural sabbata should be translated 'during the harvest' in 1,21; 2,23.24; 3,2.4. In fact 3,2.4 fell on a sabbath, the 49th day of Pentecost on Mark's calendar.

3) Mark 1,1 falls to many on a Sunday, the first day of creation (and also the first day of Shabuoth). Careful counting demontrates that 3,6 (with its riddlesome indictment of the Pharisaic conspiracy) falls on the 49th day of Shabuoth, while 3,7 falls on the 50th day of Pentecost on Mark's calendar. A great multitude followed Jesus from Galilee. Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, and beyond Jordan and from Tyre and Sidon. Whence this multitude?  It was the day of the great harvest in spite of the opposition of the Pharisees! The new Pharisaic calendar was probably introduced by Herod Agrippa I. Hence this socalled 'conspiracy with the Herodians to kill Jesus' (3,6). 
Therefore, according to the newly introduced Pharisaic calendar, 3,6 fell on a sabbath. To them that was 50th day of the harvest. However, to Mark that was a day of death, while 3,7 was the true fiftieth day with a wonderful harvest.
The two verses 3,6 and 3,7 follow each other hand in glove.  
Mark thus accuses the Pharisees (whether right or wrong) of manipulating the calendar so that the post-Easter harvest of the Jesus'movement would be stopped.   

Incidentally, a number of Talmudic scholars, following their own study of the calendar, also conclude that the Pharisaic dating of Shabuoth was probably introduced sometime before the year 70. According to Luke a fierce persecution took place around 41 CE by Herod Agrippa. Thus the perilous question of the emphasis on the Sunday after Pesach (cmp 1 Cor 15,1) and Mark's anti-pharisaism) is placed in a new light.

cordially.

your

Karel Hanhart


 

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