Monday, November 19, 2012
13th Century Chronography Identifies Mark as Writing his Gospel in Egypt
Μετὰ δὲ Γάϊον ἐβασίλευσε Κλαύδιος ἔτη ιγʹ, ἐφ' οὗ καὶ Μάρκος ὁ εὐαγγελιστὴς ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ πρῶτος ἐκκλησίαν πηξάμενος πολλὰ μοναστήρια συνεστήσατο, ἅπερ σεμνεῖα τότε προσηγορεύθησαν, καὶ τὸ ἅγιον εὐαγγέλιον συνεγράψατο, καὶ ἐπ' αὐτῆς Ἀλεξανδρείας ἐκκλησίαν πρῶτον συνεστήσατο.
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dating back to conversations with his grandfather, Gaston Frank. "He said we represent one of the last descendants of the Frankist Jewish faith in the world," he muses. "I grew up thinking that our family was something like the Last of the Mohicans."