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In this volume, Martin Hengel argues for the traditional view of the origin of the Gospel of Mark—that Mark wrote in Rome in AD 69, basing his work on the tradition handed down to him by Peter. Including an appendix on the reliability of the synoptic tradition by distinguished classical philologist Wolfgang Schadewalt, Studies in the Gospel of Mark is a direct challenge to the radical views of...

If we are to make more progress, we must also consider more closely the context, Mark 13:6–13 (and 21–23), in which Mark describes the actual situation of his community (or the church of his time as a whole). It seems strange that he encloses the whole large section about the intensification of the messianic woes (vv.8–19) within the double warning against pseudo-Messiahs and pseudo-prophets, which is further stressed by the βλέπετε at the beginning (v.9) and the end (23,cf. 33):
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