(July 26, 2012 at 1:02 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Well, prophetic cycles are important, especially so in this mythology. So, while you may be looking to events to provide an impetus for the ink, you have to be willing to entertain the possibility that even less similar events were stretched to fit the narrative (and that's avoiding that they may be manufactured whole-clothe). No one needs any event in actuality to provide a reason for storytelling.
In the end it's a bit like trying to decide what an author "really meant" post- humously with no help from the author. Tough nut to crack. Easy to criticize.
Yeah, fair enough. I think it's somewhat possible though. I mean we know quite well the context of the time I'd say. Knowing that there were Hellenistic Jews like Philo who would see deeper meanings in the OT also greatly boosts the possibility of Mark being a reworking of the OT in light of recent events affecting the Jewish communities.
The more I look into it, the more parallels there are between non-prophetic chunks of OT and Gospel. It's like the characters in the Gospel had to carry the OT and use it as a rough script for this 'genuine history' to turn out like that. Unlikely!
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
