amishrockstar
Puritan Board Freshman
Okay,
I'm going to a secular college and I'm taking a "Bible as Literature" course. The teacher gets a bunch of his stuff from John Dominic Crossan and other guys who twist the Bible and want to pervert truth.
Anyway, we are going over the Gospel of Mark and in the teacher's book he says this:
"Mark states that Jesus' arrest coincides with Passover (14:1). If so, the episode of the entry into Jerusalem, occuring just a few days before Passover (11:1-11), is called into question. Why? Answer: The presence of 'leafy branches' (11:8). Passover occurs in the spring. Leafy branches, and figs being out of season (11:12-14), point to a fall date. Can Mark have it both ways? Can it be spring and fall at the same time? Can the triumphal entry and the execution of Jesus be within a week of each other and occur simultaneously in the fall and the spring? Mark, it seems, is fudging on the chronology of one of these events. What might be his motivation"
Any thoughts on this stuff???
I just got done talking with a friend from Ethiopia who has been to the Middle-East and he said that olive trees 'always' have leaves on them and those would have been the branches that were thrown in the springtime when Jesus made the 'triumphal entry.' So I have half of this question answered, but what about the cursing of the fig tree--11:12-14 (figs put forth leaves in the summer at the 'earliest' and the fruit comes out in the 'fall').
I'm going to a secular college and I'm taking a "Bible as Literature" course. The teacher gets a bunch of his stuff from John Dominic Crossan and other guys who twist the Bible and want to pervert truth.
Anyway, we are going over the Gospel of Mark and in the teacher's book he says this:
"Mark states that Jesus' arrest coincides with Passover (14:1). If so, the episode of the entry into Jerusalem, occuring just a few days before Passover (11:1-11), is called into question. Why? Answer: The presence of 'leafy branches' (11:8). Passover occurs in the spring. Leafy branches, and figs being out of season (11:12-14), point to a fall date. Can Mark have it both ways? Can it be spring and fall at the same time? Can the triumphal entry and the execution of Jesus be within a week of each other and occur simultaneously in the fall and the spring? Mark, it seems, is fudging on the chronology of one of these events. What might be his motivation"
Any thoughts on this stuff???
I just got done talking with a friend from Ethiopia who has been to the Middle-East and he said that olive trees 'always' have leaves on them and those would have been the branches that were thrown in the springtime when Jesus made the 'triumphal entry.' So I have half of this question answered, but what about the cursing of the fig tree--11:12-14 (figs put forth leaves in the summer at the 'earliest' and the fruit comes out in the 'fall').