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RESURRECTION- AND ASDENSION-NARRATIVES
the% still LC nlinuc I, ir in dot,. I, h I' l'clrr, 'I i 8 n. ar 1
A#.:cew ,., TUr.3~6r) thnt 'during the night before the
dawn of the first day of the week Jesus appeared to
Mary hlagdalene and Mary the daughter of James, and
in the morning of the first day of the week he entered the
house of Levi. ~ " d then he appeared also to us: moieover
he said to us while he war instructine - us: Wherefore
do ye fast on my account in there days?' and 50
on. Mention is "lade of Levi in the Gospel of Petrr
also (above, 5 5 d), but in a wholly different connection.
The farring is also ntentioned there (5 5 [ f]). he
second \Inry is called the daughter (not the mother) of
Tames in ss also.
Lk. 2143 Jesusgives nhnf is left fr& what hi ate (i.r.,
accordi~~g 10 TR and AV, fish and an honeycomb) to
the clisciples.
(ri) In Tatim'r Dintmoron Capernaum is named in
>It. 28x6 insfcad of the mountaln in Galilee. In the
scene hy the open sepulchre which Tnrian giver after
J". Zlnry iz named without any addition, and Ephrem
in his commenraiy understands this of Mary the mother
of ieiur. Thir is indicated also bv the fact that orevi-
1 Apart from this reference we leave the Ana.gh. Pi/. out of
conrideradon as being a late nnd highly legendary work.
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its hero is e;pre&ly spoken of as the first to whom Jerur
appeared. He had been thrown into prison by the
Jews for having begged the body of Jerur (SEA LV,~gor.
pp. gso-g31. and. more fully, von Dobschlitz in Z f
dirihen$icch. 23 1~27 [1902]).
In any event all there notices serve to show how
busily aud in how reckless a manner the accour~ts of the
reiurkction of Jesus continued to k handed on.
The shorter conclusion of Mk. (that headed 'Ahhwr
by WH) contents itself with aimply saying the opposite
of the statelllent (that the women said
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nothing to anyone of what they had
seen and henrd at the eraur) in 168: but the loneer -
c0nclu1i0n giver n varieiy of dctails.
(a) A brief summary of its most important points has
been giren already (see GorpeLs, § 138g) : but it \rill
be necessary to eramitie marecloselysomr of the current
vir,,,s resoectinrr ~~.
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Kohrbach (bee below, (i j9), in bir hypothesis bared upon
certain indicarionsof Hnrnack, gwer his adhesion to the opinion
of Conyberr.(Er*s. d9>q, pp. ~11.15,)~ that Mk. laplo ir the
work of the prerb .ter Ar~rtlon. We shall dircurr thrr thes~s in
the form in whisi it has been adopled by Harnack (ACL ii.
I=Chron.l 1 agi-loo). In order to dtrplace the geluine con.
clusion d Mk. (see below, 8 9) in favour of another wh~h
ahovld
be "!ore in agreement with the other three gvrpcls and at the
same time be thework of an authoritarivc person, tde prerbyterr
of rhc Johannine circle in Arin Minor who brought fogcther the
four goiplr into a unity took 4 memorandum by the presbyter
Arirtlon who, ncrordlng to Pnpln, had been a permnil clirc~pie
of Jesus (Jon>, SON OF Z."FDLE. 8 4).
lbl Harnnck and Rohrbach. in order to maintain the
liternry independence of Aristion, find it necessary to
deny that Mk. 169--is a mereexcerpt from thecanonical
gospels and other writings. In this, however, they
cannot hut fail. The borrowing, indeed, is not made
word for word ; in point of fact, however, even the
smirllest deoarfure from the sources admits of exolana- . ~~
tionon grounds that areobvious. Verse9 is compounded
from Jn. 201 zI~x7
and Lk. 82 ; i'u. ro f from Jn. 2018
and Lk. 24mf: u. 12 reproduces Lk. 2413~3% and u. 13a
I,k. 24,335. 'That the eleven did not believe the disciples
from Emmaun (u. ~ ~ directly 6 ) contradicts Lk. 2434 it is
tme : but th:s is easily erplica1,le from the view of the
author that unbelief uar the invariable effect of the
accounts as to appearances of the risen Jesus-a view
which (u. I,) he expressly puts into the mouth of Jesus
himself. Thus it is by no means necessary to postulate
an independent source: all thnt is needed is unity in
the fundamelital conception of the matter.
(6) Zahn (Eirrl. 5 52=2227~210) derives UU. 14-18 from
Aristion, but declines to do so alike in the case of vi,.
9-13 and in that of 19 f In 14-18 he 6ndr ,lor mere
compilation but actual narrative, and that ~vithout
dependence on the canonical goepeh. In reality, however,
u. r+ rimply carries further what is found in Lk.
24.538 Jn. 2017 : v. 15 is an adaptation of MI. 28x9 to
Pauline and Catholic phraseology ('world' [xbgpor].
'preach the gorpcl' [x7plioor~v rb rdoyyth&ou]:cirafure'
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