RELIGST 2NT3 Lecture 5: JAN 19 - MARK’S GOSPEL AND THE JEWISH WORLDVIEW
14 Feb 2017
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Debate around if his audience is gentile and jewish or both. Is mark jewish: prof says probably jewish writing to a jewish audience. Mark is at least a decade before mt. Was in rome: with peter and could be peters memories. If in syria then it would have been written at fall of the temple. Worldview - key: holy or profane, pure or impure. Impure after giving birth and thus ritually impure -temporary. Moral impurity is a choice based on the actions one choses to do or not to do. Animal impurity - geologically, just born that way. Profane and purity are states of being in mark. Holy and impure function and act like forces. Corpse - make everything impure for impure (strong source) Genital discharges - of blood and semen for one day. Lepra (usually translated as leprosy) - (like dandruff but your skin)
