This blog supplements and updates The Two Gospels of Mark: Performance and Text. Many posts here assume that the reader has read the book. Here, I assume that Mark wrote a performed play and a narrative text, which is the (ancestor) of the text we know as the Gospel of Mark. I assume Jesus mythicism:…
Month: July 2020
Reconstruction of the Pilate scene in the Gospel of Mark
Executive Summary In the Pilate scene in the Gospel of Mark, Mark invoked a name, “Pilate,” that had meaning to the audience of his play. We can assume that Mark expected the audience (in Rome 90-95 CE) to bring their knowledge of Pilate, that he was hard or even cruel. But the Passover Privilege presents…