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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...

Here, both the constructions with ἵνα plus μή (ἵνα goes with both occurrences of μή in 4:12) and the construction with μήποτε are negative purpose clauses that cannot easily be explained away.16 We may also note Jesus’ refusal to give the Pharisees any sign (8:11–12). 5. Jesus interacts with demonic forces personally. It is striking how often Jesus has verbal intercourse with spirits (usually called ἀκάθαρτος, “unclean”) who possess human beings (see 1:23–26, 34, 39; 5:1–13; 9:14–29, and
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