Mark and Paul: Comparative Essays Part II. For and Against Pauline Influence on Mark

by Eve-Marie Becker (Editor), Troels Engberg-Pedersen (Editor), Mogens Mueller (Editor)

Overview

This volume brings together an international group of scholars on Mark and Paul, respectively, who reopen the question whether Paul was a direct influence on Mark. On the basis of the latest methods in New Testament scholarship, the battle over Yes and No to this question of literary and theological influence is waged within these pages. In the end, no agreement is reached, but the basic issues stand out with much greater clarity than before. How may one relate two rather different literary genres, the apostolic letter and the narrative gospel? How may the theologies of two such different types of writing be compared? Are there sufficient indications that Paul lies directly behind Mark for us to conclude that through Paul himself and Mark the New Testament as a whole reflects specifically Pauline ideas? What would the literary and theological consequences of either assuming or denying a direct influence be for our reconstruction of 1st century Christianity? And what would the consequences be for either understanding Mark or Paul as literary authors and theologians? How far should we give Paul an exalted a position in the literary creativity of the first Christians? Addressing these questions are scholars who have already written seminally on the issue or have marked positions on it, like Joel Marcus, Margaret Mitchell, Gerd Theissen and Oda Wischmeyer, together with a group of up-coming and senior Danish scholars from Aarhus and Copenhagen Universities who have collaborated on the issue for some years. The present volume leads the discussion further that has been taken up in: “Paul and Mark” (ed. by O. Wischmeyer, D. Sim, and I. Elmer), BZNW 191, 2013.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110314557
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	04/14/2014
Series:	Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft , #199
Pages:	338
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Eve-Marie Becker, Aarhus University, Denmark; Troels Engberg-Pedersen and Mogens Müller, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Table of Contents

Mark and Paul - Introductory Remarks Eve-Marie Becker Troels Engberg-Pedersen Mogens Müller 1

I Histories and Contexts

Mark as Allegorical Rewriting of Paul: Gustav Volkmar's Understanding of the Gospel of Mark Anne Vig Skoven † 13

Mark - Interpreter of Paul Joel Marcus 29

Paul and Mark - Mark and Paul: A Critical Outline of the History of Research Heike Omerzu 51

Evangelium" im Markusevangelium: Zum traditionsgeschichtlichen Ort des ältesten Evangeliums Gerd Theissen 63

Earliest Christian literary activity: Investigating Authors, Genres and Audiences in Paul and Mark Eve-Marie Becker 87

In the Beginning was the Congregation: In Search of a Tertium Comparationis between Paul and Mark Mogens Müller 107

II Texts and Interpretations

Romans 1:1-7 and Mark 1:1-3 in Comparison: Two Opening Texts at the Beginning of Early Christian Literature Oda Wischmeyer 121

Man and the Son of Man in Mark 2:27-28: An Exegesis of Mark 2:23 - 28 Focussing on the Christological Discourse in Mark 2:27-28 with an Epilogue Concerning Pauline Parallels Jan Dochhorn 147

Mark 7:1-23: A Pauline Hatakah? Kasper Bro Larsen 169

Paul in Mark 8:34-9:1: Mark on what it is to be a Christian Troels Engberg-Pedersen 189

III Topics and Perspectives

The Politics of Beginnings - Cosmology, Christology and Covenant: Gospel Openings Reconsidered in the Light of Paul's Pneumatology Gitte Buch-Hansen 213

Adam-Christ Typology in Paul and Mark: Reflections on a Tertium Comparationis Preliminary Remarks Ote Davidsen 243

The Cross on the Way to Mark Jesper Tang Nielsen 273

Persecution and Denial - Paradigmatic Apostolic Portrayals in Paul and Mark Finn Damgaard 295

List of Contributors 311

Index of Subjects and Names 313

Index of References 319