RT Article
T1 Oral and Written Sources in Mark 4.1–34
JF New Testament studies
VO 36
IS 2
SP 234
OP 267
A1 Sellew, Philip Harl 1953-
LA English
YR 1990
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785734008
AB When scholars discuss the compositional processes of the Gospel of Mark, one of the important questions is the extent to which the evangelist drew on earlier sources. Mark seems to have collected and reordered a great amount of disparate material and given it his own stamp in order to produce something new. But the details of this process of collection, redaction, and composition are not at all clear. To what extent were those traditions already gathered or collected before Mark? Were the pre-Marcan materials transmitted in oral or written form? What degree of freedom did the gospel writer employ in taking over, adapting, or rewriting earlier sources?
DO 10.1017/S0028688500015071