Mark's Crucifixion

As we're kicking off the week - with NT Wrong, antiapartheid activist - here's Mark's Crucifixion, per ABD.

I would much appreciate for scholars to bring in the Egerton papyrus, to my mind a (much) more credible text than is (ugh) "Peter". Especially if we're talking Paradosis because, for all that Egerton doesn't contain its Gospel's Passion, what it permits us is absolutely a plan to hand Jesus over.

But anyway. ABD agrees that Mark means his empty tomb as a device, to assert the custody-chain. He doesn't find convincing the various attempts to dig out Mark's "missing" ending. One the other hand ABD dismisses that Ephesian trope. Overall ABD allows that a tomb be possible although we'll be seeing how little he trusts Mark.

One ABD contribution here is that the NT paradosis references start with 1 Corinthians 11:23 and refer to Greek Isaiah 53:6. As noted if we exclude Hebrews, then Paul is actually not an Old-Greek guy, being a Jew capable of his own translations. Paul in another letter, to the Romans, shows much dependence upon Isaiah 52. So Paul might refer to shared lore in the community.

Relevant to other gospels like John 3:14+12:34 I'll bring that Isa 52:13 has its Servant "lifted up" / "exalted". Of interest to Evan Powell might be that although John will have Jesus as the True Vine, John won't relate the Last Supper. John's Jesus seems like Paul's and Matthew's, a branch of David. But did Johannines ever accept Paul as Paul, as the Gospel accepted 1-maybe-2 John?

Another ABD point is that Christ predicts that all twelve of his disciples will be ruling in his stead, in Matthew 19:28 / Luke 22:30. Even if you don't accept Q, the earlier of this synopsis - Mark Goodacre says Matthew, Evan Powell and Alan Garrow say Luke - could not have made it up if s/he knew Mark, so bypassed Mark on this lore. ABD concludes that Mark concocted Judas, to stage that event of paradosis, as from Psalm 41:9 and even the Enochian Similitudes(!). Of course Powell would argue that John had done this first, on his way to tar Simon Peter with the taint of Satan, around which taint the Synoptics must work.