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16 April 2006

All is revealed, in Mark’s Gospel, when Jesus dies and the Holy of Holies is unveiled to view.
Interesting reading in the TLS. Happy Easter everybody. [More:]
What, then, must Mark achieve in his Easter story?
He ends at 16:8, and sends his readers back – not least in their liturgical cycle of readings – to Galilee: to Jesus’ first appearance after Mark’s own prologue. There the readers shall discover not just the earthly Jesus, but the heavenly Son of Man who has fought in his life on earth the battle whose triumph he should be seen celebrating in visions of heaven. Mark has programmatically confused heaven and earth; for only so can he tease his readers into understanding what he believes must be understood. Mark’s whole Gospel is a parable; and those who heard it in his day as a straightforward narrative were those, in Mark’s own terms, outside. His Easter story is not written as evidence, to persuade his readers of Jesus’ resurrection; it sends them back to the story’s start, to see unveiled there the Jesus, at once earthly and risen, whom they had not recognized before.
posted by matteo 16 April | 11:03
grace like rain falls on me.
posted by quonsar 16 April | 12:06
interesting

...Paul’s converts needed a Jesus who had been raised or roused from the corpses; who had launched – and not just bypassed – the life those converts thought they were living.

What were the conditions necessary for Paul’s converts to believe that they, invisibly transformed, were now living on the threshold of heaven? ...


And how many of them were disappointed when it didn't come? even today?
posted by amberglow 16 April | 15:14
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