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: I assume that “Jesus” was a heavenly figure, a divine intermediary, for Mark and for proto-orthodox believers, until at least 150 CE, and for most after that.