Who Said That?

"Mark's story [i.e. the Gospel of Mark] is most likely Mark's fiction . . . .The gospel was indeed Mark's creation, a narrative that brought together two distinctively different types of written material representative of two major types of early sectarian movements.  One stream was that of movements in Palestine and southern Syria that cultivated the memory of Jesus as a founder-teacher.  The other was that of congregations in northern Syria, Asia Minor and Greece wherein the death and resurrection of Jesus were regarded as founding events . . . . Mark fabricated his story."

OK, you know how this works . . .  Leave your guess in the comments section below.  Please no google searches or cheating.  The whole point is to make a guess, not look up an answer! 

Update on Friday, July 11, 2008 at 01:48AM by Kim Riddlebarger

This is a quotation from Burton Mack's book, Myth of Innocence (11-12).  Mack is one of the Jesus Seminar crew, and he is also John Wesley Professor at Claremont Graduate School.  It amazes me that a guy who believes the gospel to be a myth, and that Jesus was merely some sort of pithy sage, could actually take a paycheck from a "Christian" institution.  Mack is a also Southern Baptist, who claims to remain a Southern Baptist only because it made so many of them mad.  Swell.

Comments

[John Yeazel]

Inspired by the devil himself no-doubt!!!- didn't he (the devil) write "The Inspiration and Authority of the Gnostic Gospels"- as a rebuttal to Warfield's "The Authority of Scripture" (LOL). Or, he used one of the new aggressive Gnostic writers to write it for him (who are more influenced by their presuppositions and bias then by any good and sound research). Could it be Pagels or that guy who Todd Wilken has interviewed on Issues etc. a number of times?- I forget his name. When Wilken tried to use logic, reason and good historical research as a rebuttal to this guy he kept saying things such as I do not understand this kind of foundationalist thinking and the people of the ancient world did not think this way. If I remember the guys name I will repost. It definitely is some Gnostic though.

[John Yeazel]

Looking through the other comments the name Bart Ehrman came up- I think he might be related to Bart Simpson but yeah I think that was the guys name.

[Charles S]

Robert Gundry

[Peter]

Some Jesus Seminar person. Crossan?

[Dennis E. McFadden]

Please Lord, don't let it be Bob Gundry! He taught me NT in 34 units of courses and officiated at my wedding 34 years ago!

Sounds like a Jesus seminar type scholar of a sceptical bent (Harvard, Claremont, or a Robert Funk type. Maybe a talking head on a documentary). Ehrman would not frame himself this way. Neither would the emergent gang. My guess is a Jesus the Sage type (e.g., Funk or Crossan).