db127/128 Mark is best read as a Jewish text,


even
in its
most radical Christological
moments. Nothing that Mark's Yesh proposes
or argues for or enacts would have been inappropriate
for a thoroughly Jewish Messiah, the Son of Man, & what would later
come to be called Christianity is a brilliantly successful
~ THE
most brilliantly
successful ~
Jewish apocalyptic and messianic movement.
In his now-classic book The Ghost Dance: The Origins of Religion,
Weston La Barre has the following to say
about Christianity:
"INDEED,
TO TAKE A FIRMLY SECULAR VIEW OF IT, CHRISTIANITY ITSELF WAS A CRISIS CULT.
INITIALLY IT WAS AN ORDINARY POLITICO-MILITARY REVOLT IN THE TRADITIONAL HEBREW MOLD OF SECULAR MESSIAHS,
ONE OF WHOM THE ROMAN GOVERNOR PILATE STRAIGHTFORWARDLY REGARDED AS A REBELLIOUS
WOULD-BE KING OF JEWS OF THE DA-VIDIC LINE,
AND EXECUTED IN A
USUAL FASHION!"

He follows his
"FIRMLY SECULAR"
account with a further story
about how the Jews never would have thought of a "supernatural Hellenistic Messiah,"
and that the idea of the dying & resurrected Jesus
could only have come in via
"a Neolithic vegetation spirit,
the 'dying god' of
the Near East!"

Even from a purely historical point of view,
this account, now cited here as typical of so many, can have no purchase,
as it totally ignores the JEWISH history of the divine, "supernatural" Redeemer
that we have been exploring throughout almost all of these 'myDientries' so far
(from all kinds of writers, (un)believers,
poets & funny artists
...!)!

La Barre,
oddly enough,
writes about Daniel 7
as also being the record of a "crisis cult"
but then seems to totally ignore or deny the connections of that ancient text
with any later developments within Judaism.

In the next & final chapter of his book (Jewish Gospels/Jewish Christ),
Daniel Boyarin is going to make a case that even the suffering & death of the Messiah
can plausibly be traced to the Jewish environment
of a Mark & 'his Jesus' &, he suggests,
to their own further reading of Daniel 7,
& that in any case such an idea
was hardly foreign to
the Jewish
imagination
...
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