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Understanding Mark's Apocalyptic Literature in Hellenistic Judaism and Early Christianity

Explore the genre of apocalyptic literature in Mark's writings, interpreting present events in light of supernatural realms and future outcomes. Discover the influences on audience behavior and crisis groups within this revelatory narrative framework.

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Understanding Mark's Apocalyptic Literature in Hellenistic Judaism and Early Christianity

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  1. Mark: Apocalyptic • “ A genre of revelatory literature with a narrative framework, in which a revelation is mediated by an otherworldly being to a human recipient, disclosing a transcendent reality which is both temporal, insofar as it envisages eschatological salvation, and spacial insofar as it involves another, supernatural world”, Collins, Apocalypticism, 9

  2. Mark: Apocalyptic • Writings typically interpret present and earthly in light of supernatural world and future • Influences understanding and behaviour of audience: divine authority • Associated with groups in crisis (e.g. the persecution of the church)

  3. Mark: Apocalyptic • Within the literary genre apocalypse, we find two distinct types of material: “historical” apocalypse (e.g. Revelation), rise and fall of nations, end of history and the world; “cosmic” or “mystical” (e.g. Books of Enoch) eschatology of individual and fate of soul]. • Hellenistic Judaism and Early Christianity

  4. Mark: Apocalyptic • Signs: Heaven torn apart during the baptism of Jesus (1:10); curtain of the Temple torn at his death (15:37-9) • Son of Man (earthly figure, a servant, a future eschatological judge) • “One like a son of man” (Dan 7:14) • 1 Enoch: passes judgement of humanity

  5. Marcan Apocalypse: 13 • Jesus’ prophecy of Temple’s fall: War of 66-73 CE • “The desolating sacrilege”; Mark 13:14-20; cf. Dan 9:27; 11:31; 12:11. • Daniel: Syrian monarch Antiochus IV (175-63 BCE) defilement of Temple by a Gentile King • Relationship between Mark and Paul

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