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2Revolt and rebellionThe Great Revolt - or the Jewish-Roman Wars of 66-73 AD -resulted from widespread abhorrence of the Roman occupation ofJudea. It was a long and bloodthirsty struggle. The siege ofJerusalem lasted for 7 months in the summer of AD 70. TheRoman general Titus eventually destroyed the walls of Jerusalem aswell as the Temple and the citadels.Most of the survivors were taken into slavery.The famous Arch of Titus in Rome depicts Roman legionariescarrying the Temple of Jerusalem’s treasuries, including theMenorah, during Titus triumphal procession in Rome. With the fallof Jerusalem, some insurrection still continued in isolated locationsin Judea, lasting as long as AD 73.The people were left in despair and the Christians becoming muchmore targeted as a source of trouble by the post-Rebellion Jews.And that sets the scene for another return to our old friend Mark. 11Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; Wikipedia
3SIGNIFICANCE OF MARKA REPRISEMark's is most probably the first of the writtengospels. It's really the one that establishes... the lifeof Jesus as a story form. It develops a narrative fromhis early career, through ...the main points of his life and culminates inhis death. And, as such, it sets the pattern for all the later gospeltraditions. We know that both Matthew and Luke used Mark, as a sourcein their composition and it's also probable that even John knewsomething of Mark in tradition. So, Mark is really the one that setsthe stage for all the later Christian gospel writings.Mark retells the story of Jesus. He starts by taking a number of elementsof earlier oral tradition. Mark seems to have a knowledge of at least oneand maybe two or three different collections of miracle stories as asource. He weaves these together with other stories about Jesus, aboutteachings, about travels, about other things and makes those a part ofhis understanding of how Jesus' life worked and what it was intended todo.But, in the final analysis, Mark's gospel is really about the death ofJesus. It's a passion narrative with an extended introduction, somepeople would say. Mark tells the story by thinking about the death andletting all the events that lead up to that death move toward it andthrough it. So, it's the death of Jesus that's the guiding principle toMark's gospel, not the life…. In Mark, Jesus is often a sad character.Mark tells the story this way in order to make sense out of the death ofJesus and in the light of the events of the first revolt. Those are the twoguiding principles really of the story line of Mark….
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