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, a text we know as the Gospel of Mark. This post supplements the (referenced) discussion in my book, The Two Gospels of Mark: Performance and Text. The genre of the…
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Flavia Domitilla donated the use of catacombs; Mark’s play enhanced the event
Executive Summary I begin in Flavia Domitilla’s world. I see the performance of Mark’s play from her point of view. 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…