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In The Gospel of Mark, Donahue and Harrington use an approach that can be expressed by two terms currently used in literary criticism: intratextuality and intertextuality. This intratextual and intertextual reading of Mark’s Gospel helps us to appreciate the literary character, its setting in life, and its distinctive approaches to the Old Testament, Jesus, and early Christian theology. ...

that they [children] be taught to read, and shall learn both the laws and deeds of their ancestors.” in the prophet Isaiah: Isaiah and the Psalms were the most popular OT books both at Qumran and in early Christian literature. Since the verses quoted in Mark 1:2–3 are a combination of Exod 23:20 and Mal 3:1 in 1:2 and Isa 40:3 in 1:3, some manuscripts substitute “prophets.” The mixed quotation suggests to some scholars the use of a pre-Markan testimonia collection of OT texts assembled with reference
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