St. Mark 4.1–34
The structure of this section, which is one of the two large blocks of teaching in Mark (the other being chapter 13), may be indicated as follows: That this is a composite section is fairly obvious. In v. 1 Jesus is sitting in a boat and in v. 36 he is apparently still in the boat, but vv. 10–20 pre...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1952
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Scottish journal of theology
Year: 1952, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 49-66 |
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| Summary: | The structure of this section, which is one of the two large blocks of teaching in Mark (the other being chapter 13), may be indicated as follows: That this is a composite section is fairly obvious. In v. 1 Jesus is sitting in a boat and in v. 36 he is apparently still in the boat, but vv. 10–20 presuppose a different scene. As things stand it is not clear to whom the teaching in vv. 21–32 was addressed. Are we to conclude from its relation to vv. 10–20 that it was addressed to the disciples alone, or are we to conclude from its relation to vv. 33 f. that it was addressed to the multitude? It seems likely that we have to do here with a number of originally independent pieces of tradition which have been brought together in several stages to form an artificial unity. Vv. 10–20 disturb the unity of scene of a grouping of parables and sayings which is probably itself artificial. But vv. 10–20 themselves are not originally a unit. Vv. 11–20 give a double answer to the disciples' question in v. 10. V. 13 (with the singular ‘this parable’) presupposes a question about the meaning of the particular parable and would follow on v. 10 quite smoothly. It is true that the plural ‘the parables’ in v. 10 might suggest a more general question, but it need not; and one wonders whether it represents a correction made in order to make the insertion of vv. 11 f. easier. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-3065 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Scottish journal of theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0036930600006633 |