Was "Mark", just as Apollos, learned in paulinism?

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Re: Was "Mark", just as Apollos, learned in paulinism?

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Giuseppe wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2019 1:37 pm A typical example of this reversal in action is the episodes of miracolous feeding. Who comes before? The feeding with 12 loaves or with 7 ?

Mark has the Jewish feeding come before the Gentile feeding. We should reverse the order: Apollonism was connected with the Gentile feeding but the pauline "Mark" gave it the second place to give priority to the Jewish feeding.
The gentile feeding is not original to the sevan breads and many fish story, but it became so only after the insterion of the three days and the masses coming from afar, an allusion to the gibionim of the Bopom of Joshuah, who tried to cheat their way around to escape the otherwise inevitable genocide. The trickery of the gibionim is also continued in the encounter with the Lebanese woman, just a few verses later, where the heathens are dogs to be fed with waste bread.

All this was unknown to Luke, and the comnmon source of Mk&Mt just refurbished it for inclusion in the loop to Lebanon.
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