It's often said that certain parts of Mark show parallels with the OT.
My question is how much OT references does Mark have?
Is there any available analysis on this topic?
OT references in Mark
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Re: OT references in Mark
That depends on how strict or lenient you are with the concept of a reference. Explicit references to the Hebrew scriptures are rare in Mark, and can be found with a quick skim of its contents. But there are references and allusions to, echoes of, and parallels with those scriptures which are implicit or even perhaps hidden behind a veneer of narrative.Justin Panzer wrote: ↑Mon Sep 28, 2020 12:09 pm It's often said that certain parts of Mark show parallels with the OT.
My question is how much OT references does Mark have?
Is there any available analysis on this topic?
I would recommend the following maximalist treatments of the parallels, at least, and I know I am missing a few. Please note that many of these treat all of the gospels, not just Mark, but most of the authors also think that Mark wrote first, so they do not ignore Mark like the Christian church used to do:
- John Dominic Crossan, The Cross That Spoke (mainly the passion narratives).
- Thomas L. Brodie, The Birthing of the New Testament and The Crucial Bridge (lots to do with the Elijah-Elisha cycle as used in the gospels).
- Robert M. Price, "New Testament Narrative as Old Testament Midrash," in The Christ Myth and Its Problems, pages 59-263 (focuses on the entire gospel of Mark).
- Randel Helms, Gospel Fictions (light reading).
- Almost anything by Roger David Aus (focuses on individual gospel pericopes based upon Jewish interpretations of the Hebrew scriptures).
- J. Duncan M. Derrett, The Making of Mark.
- Dale and Patricia Miller, The Gospel of Mark as Midrash on Earlier Jewish and New Testament Literature.
- Dennis R. MacDonald, The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark.
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Re: OT references in Mark
Justin Panzer wrote: ↑Mon Sep 28, 2020 12:09 pm It's often said that certain parts of Mark show parallels with the OT.
My question is how much OT references does Mark have?
Is there any available analysis on this topic?
There is a good Wiki-Introduction to the topic with a few links
"Intertextual production of the Gospel of Mark"
Two of our forum colleagues have already written longer posts about it on their blogs.
Neil Godfrey: 160 Scriptural Quotations and Allusions in Mark 11-16
R.G. Price - The Gospel of Mark as Reaction and Allegory
In addition to Ben I would also recommend
Mark Goodacre: Scripturalization in Mark’s Crucifixion Narrative
That's a really good starter
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Re: OT references in Mark
Thanks, I'll read through them.
Re: OT references in Mark
Perhaps Adam Winn's Mark and the Elijah-Elisha Narrative: Considering the Practice of Greco-Roman Imitation in the Search for Markan Source Material,
Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2010 [link is to it in Google Books].
Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2010 [link is to it in Google Books].