1998 - William R.G. Loader - Mark 7.1-23 and the Historical Jesus

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LOADER: MARK 7:1-23 123

MARK 7:1-23 AND THE HISTORICAL JESUS

William Loader

Murdoch University

William (Bill) Loader is Associate Professor inNew Testament at Murdoch University and

Lecturer in the Perth Theological Hall of the

Uniting Church in Australia

oujdevn ejstin e[xwqen tou'ajnqrwvpou eijsporeuovmenon eij" aujtoVn o}duvnataikoinw'sai aujtovn, ajllaVtaVejk tou'ajnqrwvpou ejkporeuovmenavejstin taVkoinou'ntatoVn a[nqrwpon.

There is nothing from outside of people which entering them can defile them; but

it is the things coming out from within people which defile people.1

Mark 7:15

The man who denies that impurity from external sources can penetrate into mans

essential being is striking at the presuppositions and the plain verbal sense of the

Torah and at the authority of Moses himself. Over and above that, he is striking at the

presuppositions of the whole classical conception of cultus with its sacrificial and

expiatory system.

Ernst Ksemann

2

These words from that epoch-making lecture given in 1953 in Jugenheim by the

late Professor Dr Ernst Ksemann belong to his tentative reconstruction of what

might be said to have been distinctive of the historical Jesus despite the caveats of

1 In this translation I have deliberately replaced singular by plural in order to avoid both the

less inclusive man and to retain a close correlation between nouns and pronouns in the

text, which with a word like, person in the singular would have created an awkward

sounding text.2 E. Ksemann, The Problem of the Historical Jesus inEssays on New Testament

Themes SBT 41 (London: SCM, 1964) 1547, here 39.


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