A Guide to Mark's Gospel

Date - (67-72, and he highlighted 69 as the most likely date) AD

Occasion-

Fall of Temple in Jerusalem

Roman-Jewish war in Palestine

Roman persecution under Nero

Audience-Jewish and Gentile Christians

It was mostly to the Gentiles (and we can see this through his elaborate explanations of Jewish culture-note, the Jews would already know the culture, and he would not need to explain it to them), but the fact that he used the Old Testament traditions indicates he was writing to some Jews as well. (Note, not Gentile Jews, just 'Jews')

2.) Ivan

пÑ"? Canonical gospel- gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke and John. Accepted as part of the bible.

пÑ"? Three levels of historic meaning- What Jesus told disciples, what the disciples that heard Jesus told others, what others tell us. The gospels are part of the third category.

3. Chris Scheiner

Conti told Ivan to be able to define these genres: Ivan also said that Conti said biography and succession narratives are not used.

a.) Biography- A biography is an account of a person's life, usually published in the form of a book or essay, or in some other form, such as a film. An autobiography is a biography by the same person it is about. A biography is more than a list of impersonal facts (like birth, education, work, relationships and death); it also portrays the subject's experience of those events.

b.) Parable- A parable is a brief, succinct story, in prose or verse that illustrates a moral or religious lesson. It differs from a fable in that fables use animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as actors while parables generally are stories featuring human actors or agents.

Ex: Good Samaritan, Prodigal Son

c.) Wisdom saying or Proverb- is a simple and concrete saying popularly known and repeated, which expresses a truth, based on common sense or the practical experience of humanity. They are often metaphorical.

d.) Exorcism- is the practice of evicting demons or other evil spiritual entities from a person or place which they are believed to have possessed (taken control of). The practice is quite ancient and part of the belief system of many religions. The person performing the exorcism, known as an exorcist, is often a member of the clergy, or an individual thought to be graced with special powers or skills. The exorcist invokes God, Jesus and/or several different angels and archangels to intervene with the exorcism.

Ex: Jesus exercised a man releasing the demons inside of him and they left his body because they knew who he was.

e.) Healing- the process by which the cells in the body regenerate and repair to reduce the size of a damaged or necrotic area or by which THE LORD JESUS CHRIST SHOWS UP AND HEALS YOU.

f.) Nature miracle- a miracle made by nature miracle, I assume, would be walking on the water.

g.) NT Apocalypse- a term applied to the disclosure to certain privileged persons of something hidden from the majority of humankind. Today the term is often used to mean "End of planet Earth", which may be a shortening of the phrase. 3G- apocalypse: Jesus states in Mark that he does not know when apocalypse will come; many early disciples thought it would come very soon and took the Roman destruction of the Temple as a sign. --The entire Gospel of Mark is considered apocalyptic.

h.) Passion narrative-http://catholic-resources.org/Bible/Passion.htm

i.) Proclamation- is an official declaration

j.) Liturgical text- Text pertaining to public worship, specifically to the organized worship patterns of Christian churches.

k.) Succession narrative-a successive message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events

l.) NOT SURE Annunciation-In Christianity, the Annunciation is the revelation to Mary, the mother of Jesus by the archangel Gabriel that she would conceive a child to be born the Son of God.

4.)

David Desrosiers- according to Lucas stick to 2 and 4 on this

2) The intended audience and how it would affect them - after the pain there is light - said people were being tortured by the Romans

3)How themes such as the messianic secret, etc appeared in the gospel

4)The way the New Testament involved many literary genres in their text (which bring us to question 3, I narrowed it down to J, K, and L)

OR YOU CAN MAKE UP ANY ANSWER, IT'S MORE OF A REFLECTIVE ANSWER SO.......

4.) - Mike Ryan About the audience- know how each author specifically tailored his Gospel to a distinct group of people. For example, Mark is geared towards Greek and Roman gentiles, while Luke has a soft spot for the Pope and women. This causes some discrepancies between the gospels and disproves scriptural infallibility. Each evangelist also added personal opinions as well such as Mark’s fixation on faith overcoming fear or Luke’s love of reversals (richпÑ" poor, deadпÑ" living). Each evangelist also presents Jesus in entirely different ways- Mark’s Christ is a man of action, the other Gospels may not show Jesus in the same light.

5.) Lucas Wozny- Read Mark: 7.

5.) JANG- Jesus tells us hat it is wrong to disregard God’s word for our own tradition. He uses an example of how you should “honor your father and mother” and “curse at them and you die”. Jesus tells how the Pharisees abuse this by saying that using “any support you might have had from me is qorban (dedicated to God)” to your mama or papa gives you the right to do nothing further, which is wrong and Jesus doesn’t like that. So basically they’re using God’s word to slide out of stuff easily for their own benefits.

He says: Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that