RE: How did the myth of Jesus' resurrection originate?
November 18, 2013 at 9:41 am
(This post was last modified: November 18, 2013 at 9:59 am by max-greece.)
Complete aside but:
Mark 16:1
"When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome brought Spices...."
Funny thing. I always interpreted that as Mary the mother of both James and Salome, not that Salome was there in her own right.
I think you are right, however, with the comma before the "and."
Never noticed it before.
When you put it like that there's not much there. Even with the padding of additional details - like who Luke and Mark include you have very little there.
I'd also agree that they did a very poor job with the invention of this story but possibly for different reasons, with the obvious additions to Mark, the strange tense changes in Matthew - out of keeping with the way he wrote the rest of his gospel and so on.
John, of course, has the weakest case mainly due to the duration of time between the events and his writing putting him generations away from the action. He further doesn't help his case by citing a fishing story (surely the weakest miracle ever described) in his, unique to him version.
As for Luke, his account contains one of my favorite lines in the Bible:
Luke 24:51
While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into Heaven.
Written like he just jumped into a cab - although a cab would have caused quite the furore back then.
Surely that event, had it been real, would have deserved more description than that?
Quote:In Mark's account, Salome is also with them.
Mark 16:1
"When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome brought Spices...."
Funny thing. I always interpreted that as Mary the mother of both James and Salome, not that Salome was there in her own right.
I think you are right, however, with the comma before the "and."
Never noticed it before.
Quote:So let's take a few facts they all agree on: Joseph of Arimathea owns the tomb, and has Jesus’ body placed in it, and he is not mentioned anywhere else in the Bible. Mary Magdalene goes to the tomb first, and in the all the synoptic accounts she's accompanied by at least Mary the mother of Jesus. In Mark's account, Salome is also with them. Luke includes Joanna and makes a note that there were other women with them.
When you put it like that there's not much there. Even with the padding of additional details - like who Luke and Mark include you have very little there.
I'd also agree that they did a very poor job with the invention of this story but possibly for different reasons, with the obvious additions to Mark, the strange tense changes in Matthew - out of keeping with the way he wrote the rest of his gospel and so on.
John, of course, has the weakest case mainly due to the duration of time between the events and his writing putting him generations away from the action. He further doesn't help his case by citing a fishing story (surely the weakest miracle ever described) in his, unique to him version.
As for Luke, his account contains one of my favorite lines in the Bible:
Luke 24:51
While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into Heaven.
Written like he just jumped into a cab - although a cab would have caused quite the furore back then.
Surely that event, had it been real, would have deserved more description than that?
Kuusi palaa, ja on viimeinen kerta kun annan vaimoni laittaa jouluvalot!
