Alas a difference!
A weakness for the Markan priority: why did Mark feel the need of praising John the Baptist as Elijah just immediately after the Transfiguration episode? Wasn't it sufficient a such praise already in the incipit of the gospel, via the baptism etc?
A minor contradiction would be in the fact that Jesus has just talked not with Moses and Elijah, but with Moses and John the Baptist.
A major contradiction is that, by placing a such praise (essentially, a repetition of the praise of John the Baptist in the incipit), Mark betrayes that there is something of really disturbing for him in the Transfiguration episode: did he fear the Marcionite interpretation of the episode, along the lines of the higher god proclaiming loudly that Moses and Elijah are inferior to Jesus and therefore they must obey to him as emissary of an alien god?
A weakness for the Markan priority: why did Mark feel the need of praising John the Baptist as Elijah just immediately after the Transfiguration episode? Wasn't it sufficient a such praise already in the incipit of the gospel, via the baptism etc?
A minor contradiction would be in the fact that Jesus has just talked not with Moses and Elijah, but with Moses and John the Baptist.
A major contradiction is that, by placing a such praise (essentially, a repetition of the praise of John the Baptist in the incipit), Mark betrayes that there is something of really disturbing for him in the Transfiguration episode: did he fear the Marcionite interpretation of the episode, along the lines of the higher god proclaiming loudly that Moses and Elijah are inferior to Jesus and therefore they must obey to him as emissary of an alien god?
Statistics: Posted by Giuseppe — Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:54 pm