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• Title: Why the Youth Shed His Cloak and Fled Naked: The Meaning and Purpose of Mark 14:51-52.
• Author : Journal of Biblical Literature
• Release Date : January 22, 1997
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 226 KB

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Sufficient evidence exists, some of it as yet unadduced, some of it still inadequately exploited, to indicate clearly enough what Mark (whether Mark-the-redactor or Mark-the-narrator) intended in these notoriously enigmatic lines. (1) The point of departure for most of the attempts that have been made to account for them has been, avowedly or not, the unlikely supposition that the event the two verses relate is in itself quite pointless and superfluous or irrelevant in the immediate context. (2) The latest tack to gain currency in the face of this view has been, more eisegesis than exegesis, to discover meaning hidden below or beyond what the text literally says in its actual setting. Thus freed of the shackles of narrative coherence and contextual integrity, many scholars have proposed that the passage's purport lies in a tangled skein of various christological or baptismal allegories, prefigurations, typologies, and symbolisms reaching out far afield, in particular to the youth dressed in a white robe who appears in the tomb at Mark 16:5. The improbability of these schemes is inherent in their very tortuousness, and, equally, it is at times palpable in statements of their expositors. (3) Not surprisingly, critics have been forthcoming with a ready supply of dysfunctions and inconsistencies to point out in the disparate hypotheses of this sort. (4) But their objections have gone unheeded, in part because of further grist for the symbolism mill fortuitously supplied by the citations from the so-called Secret Gospel of Mark preserved in a fragment of a letter of Clement of Alexandria (presuming it is genuine). (5) In the longest citation (folio [1.sup.v], line 23-[2.sup.r], line 11, following 10:34 in what is canonical Mark), a story paralleling the raising of Lazarus is told of a "youth" ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]) who, upon being raised from the dead by Jesus,

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