tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839131113481621095.post2785291236472677040..comments2023-06-16T07:01:52.541-07:00Comments on The Blog of Dr. T. Michael W. Halcomb: Staring Death and Life in the Face: Studies in Mark, Pt. 9TMWHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06807155020816222182noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839131113481621095.post-50019206129312880242007-08-23T19:11:00.000-07:002007-08-23T19:11:00.000-07:00John, I just noticed your comments today (about a ...John, I just noticed your comments today (about a week late). Sorry. I really appreciate your thoughts and comments, they are challenging and encouraging; thank you for engaging the text and this blog with such diligence.T Michael W Halcombhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01119080394574322124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3839131113481621095.post-46336392741858848752007-08-18T07:55:00.000-07:002007-08-18T07:55:00.000-07:00Michael,I continue to follow your ongoing commenta...Michael,<br><br>I continue to follow your ongoing commentaries with great interest. I think you are right to see the Old Testament echo in Red Sea/death and life, etc and the subsequent connection to Baptism. The Jonah connection, if it is there obviously has to do with the existential chaos occasioned by the early Jesus movement's preaching to the Gentile world. I need to do a little more thinking there - John Dart's work with Morton's Smith's Lost Mark seems to imply a later editing of our narrative which does pick up one this theme. I am just not sure it is in the first draft. For example, I am not sure that the demoniac is Gentile - but may rather be a Jew living in a Gentile territory - I'll argue that point later when my study gets to that story.<br><br>Back to your death/life theme - I think you are right that we should be careful with some sort of holier than the disciples point of view attitude - at the same time, it seems that if faith is always "in spite of" the fear - the story then becomes a paradigm less of a stillness in the waters but a stillness in the disciples being.John Montgomeryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01030741092000188820noreply@blogger.com