The Genius of the Gospel of Mark
Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman
Chris Huntley
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The Gospel of Mark is completely underrated by most modern readers, who typically consider it a condensed version of Matthew or Luke -- a nuts-and-bolts no-nonsense account of what Jesus said and did with no literary flair. Oh boy are THEY ever wrong.
In this episode Bart explains why Mark is not only his favorite Gospel but also his favorite book of the Bible, a book with subtleties, nuances, and intricacies from start to end that most people simply never see and that make all the difference for understanding its message. This is a brilliant account of Jesus' life, one of the most intriguing books to come to us from early Christianity.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman. |
| 0:06.9 | The only show, where a six-time New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned Bible scholar, |
| 0:13.0 | uncovers the many fascinating, little-known facts about the New Testament, |
| 0:17.1 | the historical Jesus, and the rise of Christianity. |
| 0:20.6 | I'm your host, Megan Lewis. Let's begin. |
| 0:24.8 | Hello everybody and welcome back to misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman. Today we are going to be |
| 0:30.5 | talking about the Gospel of Mark. It's widely agreed by academics to be the earliest gospel of the New |
| 0:35.4 | Testament. So we're going to be looking at why it was written, how it's different from the other gospels, and what exactly Mark's message |
| 0:41.8 | to his reader is. But before that, Bart, hi, how are you this week? Yeah, I'm doing well. University |
| 0:48.3 | professors usually get this bad rap for having, like, all this free time, like you get the summer off |
| 0:52.9 | and things. you just lounge |
| 0:54.9 | about eating chocolate it's great yeah watching soaps I mean how hard is it and yeah you know I get |
| 1:01.4 | that because it seems weird but our semester actually ends at end of this month some university |
| 1:06.1 | professors can probably be lazy I don't think I'd know of, but I mean, I'm sure they are, but oh my |
| 1:11.6 | God, it's like it never stops because if you're a research scholar, you just, there's no time off. But apart from that, we're heading to the end of the semester now. And for students, this is kind of the crunch time because you've got the last few weeks and you realize, oh, my God, I really haven't studied as much as I wanted to, |
| 1:28.1 | and I, as I should have. And I sure have been a lot of parties this semester. And oh, my God, |
| 1:32.8 | I got papers to write and finals to think about, oh, geez, and so students are right kind of |
| 1:37.5 | at that point where they realize it's getting serious. So, yeah, that's where I am. So how are |
| 1:43.3 | things on your end? Good, actually. April is a busy month for me, too, that's where I am. So how are things on your end? |
| 1:51.1 | Good, actually. April is a busy month for me, too, not because of teaching or exams or anything, but I run a small non-profit. |
| 1:58.6 | We give grants summer grant money to PhD students who are in the study of the ancient Near East, very broadly speaking. |
| 2:01.3 | And March, we get all the applications in. Then in April, we do online interviews on the Digital Hammerabee YouTube channel. It's kind of like I describe |
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