Reading Mark’s Christology under Caesar: Jesus the Messiah and Roman Imperial Ideology (Biblia.com)

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The Gospel of Mark has been studied from multiple angles using many methods. But often there remains a sense that something is wanting, that the full picture of Mark’s Gospel lacks some background circuitry that would light up the whole. Adam Winn finds a clue in the cataclysmic destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans in AD 70. For Jews and Christians it was an apocalyptic moment. The gods of...

Like the Jewish prophets explaining the destruction of the first temple and like Jewish contemporaries explaining the destruction of the second temple, Mark claims that the Roman destruction of the temple was a result of its corruption, that it occurred according to God’s purpose and was predicted by God’s appointed ruler, Jesus. Through this move Mark disarmed Flavian propaganda and made Rome a pawn in the plans of Israel’s God and Messiah. The implications of this analysis for Mark’s date of composition

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