The production of the Gospel of Mark – An essay on intertextuality

"Abstract For more than a century the emphasis has been on the growth and not on the making of the Gospel of Mark. This essay focuses on the latter. Firstly, attention is paid to the current views on the origins of the material in order to illustrate the implications of the traditional focus. Secondly, the production of the Gospel of Mark is discussed from the perspective of a totally different perception of the phenomena of text and textual relationships." • This article is a reworked version of a paper originally read at the annual meeting of the Society for General Literary Studies in March 1992 held at Broederstroom. [Professor Willem Vorster suddenly died on January 10, 1993 (editor)].