There's something interesting about the Gospel of Mark: many of the miracle healings are accomplished by touch.
Here's the list:
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Bethsaida, Secret Mark, and the Not-So-Great Omission, pt. 4
In the last post, I made a case for my claim that an original version of GMk was used by the Q-author to produce a Q gospel that lacked the Bethsaida section. This Q gospel was then combined with a canonical version of GMk to produce GMt, which used the Bethsaida material in canonical GMk; and GLk/Mc, which left out the Bethsaida material in canonical GMk (since it was absent in the Q gospel).
To further demonstrate the plausibility of this scenario, we'll have to show that the Q-author would have had reason to omit each of the original pericopes in the Bethsaida section in his Q gospel. Once again, these original pericopes were determined, by Michael Turton, to have been:
a) The Water-Walking
b) The Feeding of the 4000
c) The Blind Man of Bethsaida
We deal with each pericope in turn:
To further demonstrate the plausibility of this scenario, we'll have to show that the Q-author would have had reason to omit each of the original pericopes in the Bethsaida section in his Q gospel. Once again, these original pericopes were determined, by Michael Turton, to have been:
a) The Water-Walking
b) The Feeding of the 4000
c) The Blind Man of Bethsaida
We deal with each pericope in turn:
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