Carlson & others continue beating on Mark

[Nazaroo]

I actually liked it when Carlson (if its the same one) tore a hole in Morton Smith's Secret Gospel Theory/Hoax.

But has he gone too far in dismissing Mark as a bumpkin?

In my view the writer of Mark does not present Jesus as a Torah-observant Jew so much as creates him as an example of what a Torah-observant Jew looks like seen from the outside: Jesus is the writer's idea of what a Torah-observing Jew is. Mark's Jesus is about as much a Jew as the King of Persia in Chaereas and Callirhoe is a Persian. In Greek novelistic fiction it is a convention to act as a "guide to the exotic" for the reader

The link is here, for more:

Carlson on Mark

 

[justified]

Actually, you misread the blog. Carlson is quoted as writing

Rather, it is more probable to me this that the dispute is not a broadside attack, but more like the kind of "inside baseball" discussions and disputes over the application of the Torah later recorded in the Talmud. In this connection, it is not irrelevant to mention a new blog, Earliest Christian History by James G. Crossley, who argues that Mark presents Jesus as a Torah-observant Jew.​

The stuff you quoted is from Michael Turton.
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[Nazaroo]

Actually, you misread the blog. Carlson is quoted as writing [/color]

The stuff you quoted is from Michael Turton.
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Doh!

Are you sure? I thought he was quoting a letter from Carlson there, afterward.
Yes, I see the indents now. The views of three people are quoted, and they are similar...almost like his analogy of 'baseball insider' chat...