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Dennis Ronald MacDonald (born 1946) is the John Wesley Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at the Claremont School of Theology in California.MacDonald proposes a theory wherein the earliest books of the New Testament were responses to the Homeric Epics, including the Gospel of Mark and the Acts of the Apostles.
But this could mean that Mark is the common source of the other two (priority), or that it derives from both (posteriority), or even that it is an intermediary in transmission from one to the other—in other words, many such arguments can support both Marcan priority and its rivals. [26]
Marcion of Sinope (/ ˈ m ɑːr k i ə n,-s i ə n /; Ancient Greek: Μαρκίων [2] [note 1] Σινώπης; c. 85 – c. 160 [3]) was a theologian [4] in early Christianity. [4] [5] Marcion preached that God had sent Jesus Christ, who was distinct from the "vengeful" God who had created the world.
Only Mark gives healing commands of Jesus in the (presumably original) Aramaic: Talitha koum, [103] Ephphatha. [104] See Aramaic of Jesus. Only place in the New Testament where Jesus is referred to as "the son of Mary". [105] Mark is the only gospel where Jesus himself is called a carpenter; [105] in Matthew he is called a carpenter's son. [106]
Yet monotheism was also offered by Greek philosophy, especially Platonism, with its high God and the intermediary Logos. [108] According to Doherty, "Out of this rich soil of ideas arose Christianity, a product of both Jewish and Greek philosophy", [ 108 ] echoing Bruno Bauer, who argued that Christianity was a synthesis of Stoicism, Greek ...
Marcionism was an early Christian dualistic belief system that originated with the teachings of Marcion of Sinope in Rome around 144 AD. [1] Marcion was an early Christian theologian, [2] evangelist, [2] and an important figure in early Christianity.
Mark the Evangelist attributes are the lion in the desert; he can be depicted as a bishop on a throne decorated with lions; as a man helping Venetian sailors. He is often depicted holding a book with pax tibi Marce written on it or holding a palm and book. Other depictions of Mark show him as a man with a book or scroll, accompanied by a winged ...
Papyrus 45 (c. AD 250), showing Mark 8:35–9:1.. The intertextual production of the Gospel of Mark is the viewpoint that there are identifiable textual relationships such that any allusion or quotation from another text forms an integral part of the Markan text, even when it seems to be out of context.