Mark and the Relatives of Jesus

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to investigate certain sections of Mark's gospel where he is referring to the relatives of Jesus: their arrival in conjunction with the Beelzebul controversy (iii 20-35); the rejection of Jesus in his home town (vi I-6); and, as a tentative hypothesis, the activity of certain women at the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus (xv 40, 47; xvi i). The method to be used is that of redactional criticism and it will seek: to separate tradition from redaction in a verse by verse analysis so that redactional verses as well as redactional additions to traditional verses