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For many people today the Gospel of Mark is the most basic Gospel: the shortest, the simplest, the least literary, and the earliest. This has certainly been the view of the majority of New Testament scholars since the middle of the nineteenth century (especially following the work of H.J. Holtzmann), and it endures even to today. The move to such an evaluation began already in the early part of...

people: see the supposition that he is Elijah (6:15), the appearance of Elijah on the mount of transfiguration in a manner more prominent than Moses (9:4), the enigmatic Son of Man saying (9:12), and the belief that Jesus is summoning Elijah from the cross (15:35). From the opening verses of his Gospel, then, Mark conveys to his hearers/readers that Jesus is, in his own very person, the personification of God’s people, the personification of the God of Israel himself, and the prophet whom the people
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