Monday, June 8, 2009

The ur-Gospel was BOTH new Torah and Ainos

I want to make clear - my understanding that the ur-Gospel of Mark was 'the whole story' (pant ainon) of Jesus does not mean that I exclude the idea that it was also conceived as the new Torah of Israel. The two concepts were not mutually exclusive ESPECIALLY in the highly Hellenized Jewish community of Alexandria. It was undoubtedly developed along the lines of contemporary writers like Philo and Justus of Tiberias who synthesized Greek philosophy and scriptural exegesis - AND AGRIPPA, who is acknowledged by Josephus as a expert on Greek philosophy and Acts as possessing knowledge of ALL the Jewish schools.


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