An Essay For Humanities Courses: The Bible
An Essay for Humanities Courses: The Bible
PART A
MARK'S THEOLOGY REFLECTED IN WRITING
Mark and the other evangelists used basically five ways to change, edit
or enhance Jesus' sayings to reflect their own views of Christianity. According
to the Five Gospels Book, plagiarism and changing of writing was not a crime,
but actually very common Mark's time. Besides, Mark never knew Jesus first-hand,
he somehow had to make a 'story' from basically Hearsay!
Mark groups different parables and sayings of Jesus by topic; making a
false impression that these things happened in order. This may have little
effect on changing the meaning of the lesson, however it illustrates the fact
that Mark was trying to author a "readable" story for people, rather than a book
of facts. The best example would be in Mark 10:17-31 (Jesus Counsel to the
Rich) & (Parable of The Camel and the Eye of a Needle). It is doubtful that
these things happened at the same time; however, they are......
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