Markan Christology and the Omossion of "uiós Zeoú" in Mark 1:1

• Autores: Dean B. Deppe
• Localización: Filología neotestamentaria, ISSN 0214-2996, Vol. 21, Nº. 41, 2008, págs. 45-64
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In the last years a new consensus has arisen in textual critical circles that favors the omission of �Son of God� from the prologue of Mark�s gospel.

    The new angle by which I want to approach this problem is to investigate its significance for Markan Christology. I will argue that the shorter Markan prologue, �The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ� does not sufficiently capture Mark�s theology of the person of Jesus. The paper includes two sections, the first discussing Markan Christology and the second evaluating the textual evidence. In the Christological section I first challenge the assertion that Peter�s confession of Jesus� Messiahship (8:27-30) is the turning point of the Gospel of Mark. Then I demonstrate that an additional title like suffering Son of Man or Son of God is necessary to adequately capture Mark�s Christology. Finally, I argue that Matthew and John have similarly positioned crucial Christological titles in the prologues of their gospels. In the textual critical section I provide evidence for the inclusion of «Son of God� at Mk.1:1 and argue that the omission of this title in a few manuscripts must have occurred through periblepsis occasioned by homoioteleuton.