Here I will defend my theory that Mark wrote a play that was performed on a stage, and a narrative text that condensed the play. This post supplements the case I made in my book, The Two Gospels of Mark: Performance and Text. The genre of the Gospel of Mark is still open The Gospel…
Month: November 2021
Varieties of Jesus mythicism anthology is now published
Update November 19, 2021: Available now in paperback and e-book: Varieties of Jesus Mythicism: Did He Even Exist? edited by John W. Loftus and Robert M. Price. At your favorite bookstore. Update December 23, 2021: Review coming soon. Contents: Foreword by Richard C. Miller Preface “The Jesus of the Gospels Didn’t Exist” by John Loftus …
Flavia Domitilla donated the use of catacombs; Mark’s play celebrated the donation
Summary I begin in Flavia Domitilla’s world. In my book, The Two Gospels of Mark: Performance and Text, I proposed that Flavia Domitilla produced a play that was privately performed for Mark’s Roman congregation. Flavia and her husband Titus Flavius Clemens were honored during the performance of the play. It was likely followed by a…
Origin of the Catacombs of Domitilla
Flavia Domitilla donated the use of her family catacombs on her suburban property. It already hosted an above-ground cemetery. (Two of her household staff were buried above-ground.*) Although Flavia Domitilla’s nuclear and extended family disappears from history after 95 CE, the Roman congregation continued to use the donated Catacombs of Domitilla for many centuries, evolving…