Prominent Supporters of the Hypotyposeis Reference for St Mark Evangelizing Egypt

David T. Runia has suggested that Eusebius’s source is Clement’s lost Hypotyposeis, which Eusebius cites in HE 2.16 for the tradition that Mark founded the Alexandrian church. However, as we saw in Ch. 3, Clement’s extant corpus contains no definite citations or remembrances from Philo’s historical treatises, and the Hypotyposeis are described as commentaries on the Christian scriptures. In that case, it is to be expected that they would shed further light on the composition of Mark’s Gospel, but would be less likely to deal with Peter’s encounters in Rome. Sabrina Inowlocki proposes Papias as an alternative source, noting that “both Papias and Clement of Alexandria seem to be Eusebius’s sources for Mark’s evangelization of Egypt.” I find J. Bruns’s suggestion of Hegesippus as the source to be the most probable, as Hegesippus is Eusebius’s most common source for information about the fate of the Jews subsequent to the crucifixion. Moreover, Andrew Carriker attests that the phrase λόγος ἔχει is often used to introduce material from Hegesippus. See Runia, Philo in Early Christian Literature, 7; Inowlocki, “Interpretatio Christiana,” 320; Carriker, Eusebius’s Library, 64–5. [Jennifer Otto, Philo of Alexandria and the Construction of Jewishness 188, in notes 157–158]