There's something in here about Mark being formerly named Mary, or vice-versa, and I'd buy a beer for anyone who got that published.These are actually good points. But we also have to consider a potential author like "Marcus", whom Irenaeus tells us was a "flatterer of women". So there are tow potentials. One is that the writer was a woman. The other is that the writer was someone whose ministry catered to women. I think that the case is strong that it is one or the other.Isn't it obvious, though? Mark 14:9 is Mary's self-insert.Tomorrow I will encourage a few female scholars to put forward the thesis that Mary Magdalene wrote the first gospel. We will prove this and reconstruct her oppressed gospel. I expect a similar “success” of this thesis, if not an even bigger one.
And truly I say to you, wherever the gospel is preached in the whole word, what she has done will be told in memory of her.
Compare 2 Cor 12:2, the one caught up to the third heaven, for not giving the name of the author herself directly.
However, a point in favor of the first Gospel having been written by a woman is its anonymity. Perhaps is was anonymous precisely because it was by a woman and thus she knew not to put her name to it. But then again, anonymous works of this kind aren't all that uncommon.
Statistics: Posted by Peter Kirby — Tue Feb 27, 2024 12:24 pm