. 2:13) and "salted with fire" is a gloss upon a gloss, the idea being derived from the preceding pericope! If Luke-Acts was written before Paul's death in the year 67, and Luke used Mark as a source, then Mark must also have been written well before Paul's . But there was probably in Jesus -- and in Marks conception of him -- something strange, overpowering, and awe-inspiring, and on occasion even terrifying; he was no genial, ordinary man, this one who commanded the demons and they obeyed him, and who quieted the thunders and raging storms at sea with a word; and we must expect to find traces of this conception in other passages than those in which he beards the roaring elements and calms the witless maniacs. But note that B* W sys and many other MSS omitted it -- perhaps not simply out of regard for the wording of the Ten Commandments; that is, they either omitted it or, possibly, had never heard of it! And how was it possible to lose ones life (vss. The proposal seems a probable one, and the testimony of the Sinaitic Syriac is strengthened by its clear presupposition of , in Matt. Most say that Mark was written during the war when it was obvious that Rome was going to exact a terrible vengeance on the Jews for their rebellion, even though the details were unknown. [10] It is usually dated through the eschatological discourse in Mark 13, which scholars interpret as pointing to the First JewishRoman War (6674 AD)a war that lead to the destruction of the Second Temple in AD 70. Professor Torreys hypothesis that D etc. First, Mark was written in Greek rather than Aramaic. It is this foreign matter that complicates New Testament Greek. [4] All this is in keeping with Christian interpretation of prophecy, which is believed to foretell the fate of the messiah as suffering servant. The phrasing of the verse -- the punctuation is not certain; see R.V. It is generally recognized that vss. Another possible arrangement is vss. given there.) According to Torrey, it renders kadd, which in Palestinian Aramaic means, not "enough" but "now or "already." is supported by Field. Many are the conjectures that have been hazarded to account for ! 13:19 "Such" tribulation. [55] In the New Testament writings it is frequently conveyed through the titles applied to Jesus. reflect the influence of a corrective Aramaic tradition -- a view that would have attracted Bishop Chase! At the same time, other tests are applicable, chiefly one which has never been adequately recognized, namely that of authors style. Introduction Of the four canonical gospels, Mark seems to have been neglected in Antiquity, despite the tradition of Papias that its existence was due to its author's having been Peter's interpreter, which implies that this gospel writer was privy to the prime apostle's reminiscences. Lohmeyer accounts for the divergence, and the variants, as due to local oral tradition, which by no means died out at once after the Gospels were written. 3:31 f.). Torreys note (on Matt. 7:3 "Wash with the fist" is certainly, as Torrey observes, "curious and impossible." [30] There is, however, a widely recognised break at Mark 8:2631: before 8:26 there are numerous miracle stories, the action is in Galilee, and Jesus preaches to the crowds, while after 8:31 there are hardly any miracles, the action shifts from Galilee to gentile areas or hostile Judea, and Jesus teaches the disciples. 12:12) but also for "from one corner of heaven to the other" (Deut. The books of Ben Sira [our Ecclesiasticus], and all the books which were written from that time on, do not defile the hands." Written, according to tradition, respectively by St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke, and St. John (the four evangelists), they are placed at the beginning of the New Testament and make up about half the total text. If Mark wrote "Gerasenes -- and he may well have done so; his Palestinian geography is not first-class -- then Matthew probably corrected it in his parallel, and the corrections got back into the text of Mark sometime later. Pallis notes are always stimulating and sometimes richly rewarding; he approaches the study of New Testament from the vantage point of modern Greek, both literary and colloquial.) 29:13. iii, "Aramaic Gospels in the Synagogue." Torrey proposes the restoration of a sentence, following Matthew. (The Study of the New Testament, 1883 and 1920 [3rd ed., 1926] p. 13:7; Jer. This is hardly necessary if 4:10 is corrected: "They asked him about the parable" -- a reading which I believe is the right one (see 7:17). should have been borrowed from the Greek, given a Semitic transliteration -- not a very close transliteration! The command may even seem to be Pauline -- cf. 7 we are not so sure that Mark -- "Greek Mark," as Torrey calls him -- knew Jewish customs thoroughly well, nor can we be sure that he meant a time after sundown (see 1:32). (Cf. Torreys repunctuation helps -- but it leaves him with the necessity of treating 2b-3a as a participial clause plus a finite verb: "When the sun had risen, and they were saying to one another . [71], The term "Son of God" likewise had a specific Jewish meaning, or range of meanings,[72] one of the most significant being the earthly king adopted by God as his son at his enthronement, legitimising his rule over Israel. Why not read "she commits adultery" ? As for () o -- several MSS omit the article, but even with it the adverbial sense is obvious -- the word has probably too often been translated, here and elsewhere in the N.T., without regard to its history; in modern Greek it means "now," "then," "well," or "therefore," and is a useful connective in discourse. That there was a common underlying tradition at this point in all three Synoptics seems undeniable, and is now generally recognized. (Luke significantly omits the section, while the Fourth Gospel flatly denies the identification of John with Elijah, 1:21.) That implies that the author of Mark was not a first-generation or even a second-generation follower of Jesus, but a later follower who was proficient in Greek. 7. It must be an oversight.) In fact it is needed, as the motivation of vs. 11. 17:11 -- so take the Greek; and so did D 565 etc., who read d before Elias. [69], Eschatology means the study of the end-times, and the Jews expected the messiah to be an eschatological figure, a deliverer who would appear at the end of the age to usher in an earthly kingdom. Conservative scholars who favor an early date often rely heavily upon a fragment of papyrus from Qumran. When you visit the site, Dotdash Meredith and its partners may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. There are certainly variants enough to choose from at this point! . [58] In Hellenistic culture the same phrase meant a "divine man", a supernatural being. [56] These and other instances provide reliable evidence of how the evangelist perceived Jesus, but it is not clear just what the title meant to Mark and his 1st century audience. There are many clear signs that Mark has gone to great lengths to absolve Romans of the responsibility for Jesus death even to the point of painting Pontius Pilate as a weak, indecisive leader rather than the brutal tyrant that everyone knew him to be. It is of interest that Lohmeyer thinks the story of the healing of the leper in 1:40-45 has come down in two forms, one in which Jesus reprimands him, the other in which he pities him -- and in both heals him. The word "Gospel" is translated from the Greek euaggelion or euangeliou, which means "good news" or more specifically, "God's good news."In the Bible, the Gospels are the four accounts of the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Messiah, as written by His disciples.. does. Turner conjectured that the opening sentence of the pericope repeats from 15:47, perhaps as the beginning of an Easter lection;(The study of the New Testament, p. Where did he get his material? It was written about 70 CE - 40 years after Jesus was long gone. If it were not for the identification of John with Elijah in vs. 13 and in Matt. How then is it written of the Son of Man that he must suffer many things and be despised?" In this series of masculine genitive plurals -- five successive endings in or -- might be more reasonably suspected of being a product of dittography, if it is thought superfluous. [24], However, in the 19th century, Mark came to be viewed by many scholars as the earliest of the four gospels, and as a source used by both Matthew and Luke. - - anything that requires salt ? For more information click here. (Charles C. Torrey, Documents of the Primitive Church (1942), chap. Religion Online is designed to assist teachers, scholars and general seekers who are interested in exploring religious issues. I confess I feel as much difficulty without the words that Torrey omits as I do with them. . 313.) Tb 6,10-11; 7,1.9-17; 8,4-9. and in Torreys version. (Commentary, p. . But we might go further; the textual evidence in vss. Uniting these ideas was the common thread of apocalyptic expectation: Both Jews and Christians believed that the end of history was at hand, that God would very soon come to punish their enemies and establish his own rule, and that they were at the centre of his plans. 8:24 "I see the men, whom I see as trees walking." 7. [11] This would place the composition of Mark either immediately after the destruction, which is the position of most scholars, or during the years immediately prior. Moreover, in the case of Mark, which was a less popular Gospel than Matthew, and probably had fewer copies made during its first century of existence than either Matthew or Luke, we must be constantly on the watch for variant readings that escaped the later process of stereotyping. 4:12 This is, for exegesis, probably the most important correction of Mark. Lohmeyer views vs. 12b as a gloss. It was an easy addition, in view of vs. 11. . RT @gregsart: Mark, the gospel, was the first one written. The New Testament documents were, no doubt, written in a language intelligible to the generality of Greek-speaking people; yet to suppose that they emerged from the background of Greek thought and experience would be to misunderstand them completely. Tradition says that Luke was from Syria and knew Greek and Egyptian so he must have written his Gospel in Greek. 11:19 The "every evening" is too literal -- see other instances of , 2:20; 4:29; 8:38; 9:9; 12:23; 13:4; etc. Surely these were not the peculiar or -- from the orthodox Jewish point of view -- the dangerous features of Christianity! 1.8 formed an independent lection. Some acknowledged that the Second Coming had been delayed, but still expected it; others redefined the focus of the promise, the Gospel of John, for example, speaking of "eternal life" as something available in the present; while still others concluded that Jesus would not return at all (the Second Epistle of Peter argues against those who held this view). margin -- not the R.V. The expression Migdaloth Chinnerim" occurs in Meg. 33-37, the contending of the disciples. If the oo was original, it would easily be conformed to the other cases of in the Gospels. The Gospel of Mark [a] is the second of the four canonical gospels and one of the three synoptic Gospels. It is this inquiry into the Hebrew-Aramaic original of the tradition that leads students to turn eagerly to Dr. Torreys illuminating notes, and to follow step by step, as far as it is possible to follow, his evidence for the underlying Aramaic. literally, "get behind yourself" -- as the Sinaitic Syriac reads in Matt. An early Christian writer named Papias wrote (c. A.D. 120) that Matthew wrote the oracles of Christ "in the Hebrew tongue." For them, it doesnt make a great deal of difference whether Mark wrote shortly before the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE or shortly after. There is a strange and awkward element in the language which not only affects the meanings of words, not only disturbs the grammar and syntax, but lurks everywhere in a maze of literary allusions which no ordinary Greek man or woman could conceivably have understood or even detected. From the book of Tobias. Had Mark been interested in addressing Jews specifically, he would have used Aramaic. It portrays Jesus as a teacher, an exorcist, a healer, and a miracle worker, though it does not mention a miraculous birth or divine pre-existence. Perhaps he thought it was about sundown. But this is not the same thing as gilynim in the passage in the Tosephta. Here again we are faced with a complicated textual problem, where the original text is probably buried among the mass of variant readings. [57] Where it appears in the Hebrew scriptures it meant Israel as God's people, or the king at his coronation, or angels, as well as the suffering righteous man. I only suggest that not "you" but "able" should be in italics -- Jesus is the one who has the necessary faith! The "Minim" were more probably Jewish Gnostics. But Mark is the only writer in the New Testament to use this verb, and he uses it four times; Acts uses the noun, just once. I do not doubt that the difference between Mark and the parallels may be explained by recourse to the probable Aramaic form of the saying, either as Wellhausen proposed, ill for l, or as Torrey proposes, the aleph carried over from the preceding word, arkh. But Mark wrote in his own style, not in ours! ; Our Translated Gospels (1936). There remains continuing debate over how far the "secret" originated with Mark and how far he got it from tradition, and how far, if at all, it represents the self-understanding and practices of the historical Jesus. We should say, "When the sun had risen, and they could see, they discovered that. 11:14; 17:12 f.; and elsewhere-contrast the tradition reflected in John 1:21 -- the sentence would probably always have been taken as a question. Torreys translation "the (approaching) trial" is pure interpretation-perhaps influenced by Schweitzers? [21], Up until the 19th century the gospel of Mark was traditionally placed second, and sometimes fourth, in the Christian canon, as an abridgement of Matthew; the Church has consequently derived its view of Jesus primarily from Matthew, secondarily from John, and only distantly from Mark. "When was the Gospel According to Mark Written?" But even without bracketing the editorial insertion, the singular is required in vs. 10. (See Israel Abrahams, Companion to the Authorized Daily Prayer Book (rev. We need not debate the length of time Jesus prayer continued. Mark 16#Longer ending of Mark (verses 920), "A Textual Commentary on the Greek Gospels. Moreover, there is strong textual evidence for . 6:5. The contrast of and is especially suggestive of later formulation. This was the reading, in fact, of D 565 it syr sah arm! 30:4; Ps. Ber. Mark does not explicitly state what he means by "Son of God", nor when the sonship was conferred. The fact that they share so much material verbatim and yet also exhibit important differences has led to a number of hypotheses explaining their interdependence, a phenomenon termed the synoptic problem. 1:32 etc.). (Where does Lohmeyer get ? [42], In Mark, the disciples, especially the Twelve, move from lack of perception of Jesus to rejection of the "way of suffering" to flight and denial even the women who received the first proclamation of his resurrection can be seen as failures for not reporting the good news. 61.) 4; 20. Contrast 9:13 above. . [63], A third important title, "Son of Man", has its roots in Ezekiel, the Book of Enoch, (a popular Jewish apocalyptic work of the period), and especially in Daniel 7:1314, where the Son of Man is assigned royal roles of dominion, kingship and glory. As in all the gospels, the messianic identity of Jesus is supported by a number of themes, including: (1) the depiction of his disciples as obtuse, fearful and uncomprehending; (2) the refutation of the charge made by Jesus' enemies that he was a magician; (3) secrecy surrounding his true identity (this last is missing from John). Only if it is taken with the preceding finite verb, rather than -- as Marks style certainly allows! (Second Edition, 1909.) (See R. Travers Herford, Christianity in Talmud and Midrash (1903), p.155. Perhaps the was suggested -- at least to some copyist-by the preceding , vs. 48. Judg. and it is not impossible that vs. 3 is an editorial insertion, not so much to give continuity with 15:46 as to motivate vs. 4, if vss. The gospel tradition was originally Aramaic, though translated from time to time, and probably from a fairly early date, into Greek. Nor does "Minim" mean Christians, I believe, either here or in the Shemoneh Esreh or elsewhere in ancient Jewish literature or tradition where the term is used. Unlike the Israelites at Sinai, the people did not fear to approach Jesus! Crude as it is, the Gospel of Peter seems to stand closer to the Semitic original than do our canonical Gospels -- even in mistaking the word "God" for the word "strength" or "power." This is an interesting conjecture-though the real significance of the epithet is still as obscure as ever. The failure of the disciples and Jesus' denial by Peter himself would have been powerful symbols of faith, hope and reconciliation for Christians. But it sounds like patristic exposition, and rather homiletical at that. 70. Probably exegesis had something to do with textual transmission at this point: "wounded in the head" was taken to be a reference to John the Baptist, as in the Old Latin (k) decollaverunt, modified later to in capite vulneraverun:. [71], All four gospels tell a story in which Jesus' death and resurrection are the crucial redemptive events. Because of the reference to the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE (Mark 13:2), most scholars believe that the Gospel of Mark was written sometime during the war between Rome and the Jews (66-74). 16:2-4 The text is complicated, but it is a question if the fault is mistranslation from Aramaic. The Old Testament background of the Transfiguration narrative is strongly evident. 18. It may be a gloss, either upon Mark or upon the tradition; the sequence of 12a-13, omitting 12b, seems clear, and the phrase "as it is written concerning him" reflects no prophecy but only the stormy career of the Tishbite as related in the Old Testament. Only familiarity induces us to acquiesce in such literary crudity as the R.V., "It is a prophet, even as one of the prophets." cf. ." Copyists do not always expand their texts, nor do they always harmonize, assimilate, or complete, nor do they always smooth out or simplify the hard readings. But (a) some of the pericopes were already linked together, or provided with settings, in the oral tradition; and (b) the style of the tradition may have influenced its editor -- as we may observe in the other Gospels, and even outside the New Testament.) 9:13 This is one of the most difficult verses in the Gospel, as Lohmeyer and other commentators recognize. xvii.) . Only the inspired text itself is sacred. [76] There are, however, important differences between the four: Unlike John, Mark never calls Jesus "God", or claims that Jesus existed prior to his earthly life; unlike Matthew and Luke, the author does not mention a virgin birth, and apparently believes that Jesus had a normal human parentage and birth; unlike Matthew and Luke, he makes no attempt to trace Jesus' ancestry back to King David or Adam with a genealogy. At first glance it might seem most probable that the Gospels themselves were composed or compiled in Aramaic, and then later turned into Greek either by one or by more than one translator. 3:31 f. "They sent to call him, for a throng was seated about him." . There is little doubt, nowadays, that Westcott and Hort held too tenaciously to their hypothesis of a "Neutral" text. The same is true of vs. 26. It also reflects the Jewish scripture theme of God's love being met by infidelity and failure, only to be renewed by God. I believe that what Mark wrote was something like this: "the son of the carpenter, the brother of James and Joses . The author is unknown, wrote in Greek for a Gentile audience, and he had never met Jesus. One cannot help suspecting that Marks true text at this point is preserved, under modification, in Luke -- as sometimes happens! Apart from a few dissenting scholars who put forward a tenuous case for a later date for Luke's gospel, the general conclusion is that Luke-Acts was therefore written before the year 67. But the papyri now make it clear that the R.V. All our manuscripts have "mixed" texts; and a good early reading may, and often does, survive in a "late" manuscript or family; for the copyist, in this case, may quite conceivably have made use -- either visually or by memory-of a very early exemplar. Of course the earliest MSS did not distinguish EN with a breathing from EN without one! Some of these pericopes and sayings may even have been written down in Aramaic before translation into Greek. ", Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament. ed., 1922), pp. at the end of vs. 2 may be something more than the result of an effort to ease the reading; on the other hand, at the beginning seems to be definitely in Marks style (cf. It would certainly ease the translation to shift it from the text to the footnotes! But it could readily be omitted by homocoteleuton, or because of its omission in vs. 33. It appears on the lips of God himself at the baptism and the transfiguration, and is Jesus' own self-designation. 6:53 "When they came to land on the other side, at Gennesaret, they moored to the shore." But it is a very complicated theory -- and the ancient rule of logic still holds good. This seems to me the very reductio ad absurdum of the hypothesis that gillayn means "Gospel"! The Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes render the hands unclean. "Powers," in Marks use of the word, do not "work" but "are wrought," by God, by Jesus, or by the Spirit. [15][16], The consensus among modern scholars is that the gospels are a subset of the ancient genre of bios, or ancient biography. 6:7, 8; 7:5; and also I Tim. Matthew wishes to emphasize that the Jewish tradition should not be lost in a church that was increasingly . "When was the Gospel According to Mark Written?" 23:2 LXX.) Would anyone suggest translating Mishnah Yadaim to read: "The Gospel in a scroll, above and below, at beginning and end, renders the hands unclean," that is, is sacred? Thanks, Glenn Answer: Glenn, sorry it has taken me so long to respond to you. The then naturally got repeated. 14:2 -- is the most probable solution of the problem: the Aramaic passive verb, not being vocalized, was misunderstood as an active verb. Moreover, an antecedent is now supplied to in verse 50, which otherwise is left dangling, and inexplicably so. 15:34 Torrey has a very good note on the cry of desolation, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Its aim is to develop an extensive library of resources, representing many different points of view, but all written from the perspective of sound scholarship. At any rate, the is certainly suspect, and the present text of Mark looks like a conflate of Matthews with Marks . margin. To a mustard seed which, when it is sown upon the ground, grows up and puts out great branches [and becomes a tree], so that under its shadow the birds of heaven can build their nests." The other read: "In what parable will we set it forth? (3) A great many of the obscurities and other difficulties in the present Greek text of Mark are due to careless copying, and that they still survive in modern printed editions is largely due to the fact that the task of textual criticism has not been completed. [6] But "phantasm" is the same as , which the Sinaitic Syriac apparently read here. As we have also seen, some of the parallel sayings in the Gospels presuppose a common Greek original, suggesting a single translation, while others presuppose an original farther back, suggesting diversity of translation and transmission. In spite of the exaggerations of earlier scholars, who spoke of biblical Greek as "the language of the Holy Ghost," a peculiar Jewish-Greek tongue not known outside the Bible, and in spite of the reaction against this absurd exaggeration, it is becoming generally recognized today that there is really something unique about the language of the New Testament, and especially of the Synoptic Gospels -- something not to be explained wholly by the parallels found in the Egyptian papyri. Logically (for a number of reasons), to me it only makes sense that the New Testament was written in Greek. about this topic but was having trouble finding the time or appropriate resources to do so. Torreys argument for an Aramaic basis is most convincing. Learn Religions. Marks , and his on are sometimes picked up by mistake and then laid down -- like a carpenter reaching for a chisel and instead picking up a gouge, and then quickly laying it down for the proper tool! THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK. Torreys conjecture is surely in line with the most probable meaning of the passage. With such a complicated text of Mark before us, the true sense of the passage, and the wording as well, must be recovered from Luke: "Some said John was risen from the dead, some that Elias had appeared, and others that one of the prophets of old had risen" -- Elijah was expected to appear at the end of the age, but an ancient prophet arising from the grave was something else. Clementine Vulgate Gospel, any of four biblical narratives covering the life and death of Jesus Christ. But it is difficult to see why the words are "quite impossible" here, and not in the passage in Matthew! The Gospel writers transliterated the Aramaic (Mk 15) and Hebrew (Mt 27) into the Greek script.. Would they wait until sunrise to ask their question? The difficulty requires no appeal to Aramaic -- indeed there is, and was, no difficulty! Marks Greek can almost be phrased as Torrey supposes the Aramaic to have read. As explained by the "Aramaicists." In fact, the passage in Tosephta probably does not refer to Gospels at all, or even to books, but means simply this: "The gilynim," that is, the margins, end pages, or blank columns, "in the sacred rolls belonging to the heretics do not defile the hands," that is, are not sacred -- even though they contain sacred texts. In the next place, (2) there are obscurities in the present text of Mark, and the obscurities persist even after retranslation into Aramaic -- for example Mark 7:3; 8:34; 9:29. Torreys translation presupposes the reading of B etc., "a Syrian, a Phoenician," whereas the majority of MSS, including now p45 read "a Syrophoenician" -- that is, presumably, a Phoenician Syrian, a coastal Syrian, by birth (or race). . Some lean more towards later in the war, some earlier. 16:7, 11 LXX, Lohmeyer. ) But, to begin with, it is most strange that a term which was not used in Greek to describe our Gospels until towards the middle of the second century (See Justin Martyr, Apol. Several ancient and most important manuscripts have turned up during this interval -- the Washington, the Koridethi, the Sinaitic Syriac, the Michigan-Chester Beatty and other papyri -- and new editions of texts have appeared, such as those of the Old Latin and the Egyptian versions, or Sanday and Turners reconstruction of the New Testament text of Irenaeus, also new editions of the Greek, Latin, and Syriac church fathers -- all this has taken place since 1881. But Mark has some peculiar uses of -- see 3:21; 5:26, -- and Lohmeyer translates "on the road" without appeal to Aramaic I, 4:8, 20 "Thirtyfold" etc., reading v, "one each time. It certainly reflects the strong theme in Mark of Jesus as the "suffering just one" portrayed in so many of the books of the Jewish scriptures, from Jeremiah to Job and the Psalms, but especially in the "Suffering Servant" passages in Isaiah. (Galilaa und Jerusalem, pp.72f.) 9:15 "In excitement," rather than, "were greatly amazed." 24.) [70] The earliest Jewish Christian community saw Jesus as a messiah in this Jewish sense, a human figure appointed by God as his earthly regent; but they also believed in Jesus' resurrection and exaltation to heaven, and for this reason they also viewed him as God's agent (the "son of God") who would return in glory ushering in the Kingdom of God. It is the shortest and the earliest of the four Gospels, presumably written during the decade preceding the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 ce. The sense of the whole paragraph, which many scholars suppose to be derived from later debate over the significance of John, is that Jesus, like John, must suffer many things. 6:5 LXX B~. "The hour" in vs. 41 must have some relation to "the hour" in vs. 35. At the same time, what Lohmeyer says on 3:5 is important: "Wherever in the evangelic tradition we come upon words describing Jesus emotions, they have nothing whatever to do with the genuinely human traits of the man Jesus [as the exegesis of forty years ago maintained! Denies the identification of John with Elijah, 1:21. story in which Jesus ' own.. If it is this foreign matter that complicates New Testament Greek from time to time and... Papyri now make it clear that the R.V not fear to approach!! Was conferred '' is pure interpretation-perhaps influenced by Schweitzers suspect, and,! They moored to the Authorized Daily Prayer Book ( rev lips of himself. 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