db106 Mark 7 & a Non-Parting of the Ways ~~~~~~~~~

IN
conventional readings
of the Gospel of Mark,
Yesh's relationship to Jewish dietary laws
is taken as a watershed moment in religious history,
when one set of fundamental beliefs is cast out in favor of a new worldview.

For centuries,
Christian preachers, scholars & lay readers of this " "Mark"
have read the Gospel as teaching us not only that 'Jesus' did not keep kosher but also that he permitted all foods that the Torah had forbidden Jews to eat!? THIS is parly dependent on the very common view that Mark himself, the 'author of the Gospel of Mark', was a believer from the Gentiles for whom the practices of eating kosher were entirely foreign & off-putting. The consequence of these two positions when put together is that at its earliest moment, the Jesus movement was characterized by a total shift in ideas about 'how to serve G d', becoming entirely other to Judaism. To other EUANGELISTS, especially Matai, who openly portray a Yeshu who is much more friendly to-ward the Torah as practice, are understood as a product of communities referred to by names such as Jewish-Christian or Judaizing communi-ties, themselves terms of art in an ancient Christian discourse
about heresy?!

THIS
would be
a shift of
no small moment, as
indeed the dietary laws were then
& remain today one of the very hallmarks of Jewish religious practice.
If Mark has been misread, however, & his Jesus did not abandon or abrogate such basic Jewish practices as keeping kosher,
then our entire sense of where the Jesus movement
stands in relation to the Judaism of its time
is quite changed.

In short,
if the earliest of Christians believed that Jesus kept kosher,
then we have good reason to view that Christianity as another contending branch of Judaism.
THE question of the "Jewishness" of Mark lies at the very heart of our understanding of the historical meaning of the Jesus movement
in its earliest period. YESHUA was, according to the view we defend here, NOT fighting against the Jews or Judaism but with SOME Jews for what he considered to be the RIGHT kind of Judaism. AS we have seen here already several times before in past & present entries,
this kind of Judaism included the idea of a second divine person
who would be found on earth in human form as the Messiah
(& in the person of that Yehoshua)!

The only controversy surrounding Yesh was whether this son of a 'carpenter of Natsereth' truly WAS
'THE ONE' for whom the Jews were waiting? Taking HIMSELF to be THAT very Jewish Messiah, Son of Man, however,
YESHUA surely would NOT have spoken contemptuously of the Torah but would have upheld it!
What counts is being/becoming ourselves & also respect all other forms of 'life':
indeed, as far as I, Mor, can see it was his original
experience inbetween somewhere 4 BC/BCE
& maybe 36 AD/CE that
his VISION was worth
being 'copied' &
'followed' by
all!?!
OK!
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