Date of Mark's Gospel
Insight from the Law in Earliest Christianity
Date of Mark's Gospel
Insight from the Law in Earliest Christianity
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567081957
Number of Pages: 262
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
This book argues that Mark s gospel was not written as late as c. 65-75 CE, but dates from sometime between the late 30s and early 40s CE. It challenges the use of the external evidence (such as Irenaeus and Clement of Alexandria) often used for dating Mark, relying instead on internal evidence from the gospel itself. James Crossley also questions the view that Mark 13 reflects the Jewish war, arguing that there are other plausible historical settings. Crossley argues that Mark s gospel takes for granted that Jesus fully observed biblical law and that Mark could only make such an assumption at a time when Christianity was largely law observant: and this could not have been later than the mid-40s, from which point on certain Jewish and gentile Christians were no longer observing some biblical laws (e.g. food, Sabbath).
Introduction; Part 1: The External Evidence; Irenaeus and the 'Anti-Marcionite' Prologue; Clement of Alexandria; 'The Second Year of Claudius'; First Century Evidence for Peter in Rome during the Forties? Papias and Markan Authorship; M. Hengel on Gospel Authorship; Conclusions; Part 2: Mark 13; N. T. Wright and the Historicity of Mark 13; The Abomination of the Desolation; The Caligula Crisis and Mark 13; Other Possible Historical Contexts: From the Mid-Thirties to the Jewish War; Antichrist, Unfulfilled Prophecies and the Problems with Dating; Mark 13 and the Jewish War; The Narrative Frame: Mark 13:1-2; Conclusions; Part 3: The Date of Mark and Modern Gospel Criticism; Source Criticism; Paul as a Source for Mark? Form Criticism; The Composition of Mark's Gospel; Redaction and Literary Criticisms; D. Seeley on Mark 11:15-17; G. Theissen and J. Marcus on Mark 11:15-17; Mark 11:15-17: From the Historical Jesus to Markan Redaction; Marken Replacement Symbolism; Marken Redaction, the Jewish War and Nationalistic Movements; Markan Redaction and Persecution; A New (-ish) Approach to the Date of Mark; Conclusions; Part 4: Jesus' Torah Observance in the Synoptic Gospels; Jesus and the Torah According to Mark; Jesus and the Torah According to Matthew; Jesus and the Torah According to Luke; Conclusions; Part 5: The Torah and Earliest Christianity; Stephen and the 'Hellenists'; Zeal for the Law; Paul's Early Attitude towards the Law; Peter's Vision (Acts 10-11:18); The Antoich Controversy (Gal. 2:11-14); The Jerusalem Conference; Christianity and the Law in the Forties; Conclusions; Part 6: Dating Mark Legally (I): 2 Test Cases (Mk 2:23-28); Mt. 10:1-12; Sabbath: Dating Mark through Mark 2:23-28 and Parallels; Divorce and Remarriage: Dating Mark through Mark 10:2-12 and Parallels; Conclusions; Part 7: Dating Mark Legally (II): Mark 7:1-23; Handwashing - Mark 7:4 and Other Traditions; Qorban - Mark 7:1-23 and 'Tradition'; The Transmission of Impurity; Tebul Yom; Gospel Editing; Conclusions
"Crossley's thesis is tightly argued and convincing in many respects. His critique of the traditional means of dating Mark is particularly compelling, confirming the uncertainties of traditional arguments and the danger of insisting in a particular Sitz im Leben." Mark Strauss, Bulletin for Biblical Research, 18.1--Sanford Lakoff
