Re: Mk 1.2 and an infinite loop on my computer

Jeffrey Gibson (jgibson@acfsysv.roosevelt.edu)
Wed, 19 Feb 1997 10:09:54 -0600 (CST)

On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Michael H Burer wrote:
>
> A thorny problem here is why Mark attributes all of these to Isaiah only.
> My guess is that Isaiah was the best known prophet. There are other
> instances of this kind of generalizing in the NT (cf. Mt 2:23). The
> authors must not have felt that quotations had to be as exact as we
> currently make them.
>
Check out the discussion of this text in Joel Marcus, _The Way of the Lord_.

Jeffrey Gibson
jgibson@acfsysv.roosevelt.edu