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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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