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Mark is my favourite Gospel, he\u2019s the Bourne Identity of the Gospels, constantly asking us: So, who do you think this guy is? Here\u2019s a great summary of Mark\u2019s literary significance:<\/p>\n

Mark \u2026 is written in an extremely plain, abrupt, often unidiomatic and dogged Koine which has generally made to seem falsely natural, even eloquent in English translations. \u2026 Admittedly, Mark\u2019s final effect in Greek is one of a great and spare eloquence; but that strength is seldom owing to the actual words or structure of his sentences and never to calculated effects of mellifluous rhetoric.\u00a0 If his eloquence has primarily linguistic origins, that power rises from the struggle between Mark\u2019s headlong intent and his gravely hobbled command of his medium. Yet a strong argument can easily be made that Mark \u2013 whoever he may have been \u2026 is the most original narrative writer in history, an apparently effortless sovereign of all the skill and arts of durably convincing storytelling \u2026despite centuries of neglect when it was thought to be a mere summary of the longer and fuller Matthew and Luke, Mark has proved the most influential of human books. All other books from four thousand years of epics, plays, lyrics, and biographies have touched human life less potently.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Source: Reynolds Price,\u00a0Three Gospels<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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