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Walter Brueggemann (born March 11, 1933) is an American Protestant Old Testament scholar and theologian who is widely considered one of the most influential Old Testament scholars of the last several decades. [1] His work often focuses on the Hebrew prophetic tradition and sociopolitical imagination of the Church.
In the Gospel of Mark, generally agreed to be the earliest Gospel, written around the year 70, [3] [4] Jesus predicts his death three times, recorded in Mark 8:31-33, 9:30-32 and 10:32-34. Scholars note that this Gospel also contains verses in which Jesus appears to predict his Passion and suggest that these represent the earlier traditions ...
Biblical scholar Walter Brueggemann observes that "theodicy is a constant concern of the entire Bible" [8] [9] and he describes theodicy, from the biblical perspective, as a subject that "concerns the question of God's goodness and power in a world that is manifestly marked by disorder and evil."
The Hebrew scriptures were an important source for the New Testament authors. [13] There are 27 direct quotations in the Gospel of Mark, 54 in Matthew, 24 in Luke, and 14 in John, and the influence of the scriptures is vastly increased when allusions and echoes are included, [14] with half of Mark's gospel being made up of allusions to and citations of the scriptures. [15]
Mark 3:20–21 is determined to be "pink" ("a close approximation of what Jesus did") and is called "Jesus' relatives come to get him" as are Mark 3:31–35, Matt 12:46–50, and the Gospel of Thomas 99:1-3 where they are called "True relatives". Mark often has Jesus using analogies, metaphors or riddles, called parables by Mark. [24] Jesus ...
[1] [7] In Wrede's theory, the secrecy is a literary strategy meant to head off this objection while steering a middle course between two points of view in early Christianity about Jesus's role as messiah: that Jesus only became the messiah starting at the crucifixion (Phillipians 2:6-11), or that his role had been fully filled and preordained ...
This is the second prediction of the Passion in Mark's Gospel, although in the first prediction there is no reference to betrayal. [13] Theologian Marvin Vincent notes that the Greek reads "ἐδίδασκεν" ( edidasken ), and that the Revised Version would have done better to give the force of the imperfect here: He was teaching .
This prediction contains all the elements of the Passion except for the means, crucifixion. Jesus' delivery to the gentiles forms part of his prediction here, and likewise in the third predictions in Matthew (Matthew 20:19) and Luke (Luke 18:32). [12] This passage anticipates Mark 15:1, where the Sanhedrin hands Jesus over to Pontius Pilate. [13]