Dixon Carter Lee
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FANTASY AND MYTH IN THE DEATH OF JESUS
By George Aichele
The fantastic elements in the Gospel of Mark open disturbing possibilities as they countervail the Jesus myth that has dominated Christian tradition.
And going into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting in the right-hand part, wearing a white robe. And they were startled into amazement. But he said to them: Do not be thus amazed. You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen, he is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go and tell his disciples, and Peter: He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he told you. And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and panic had hold of them. And they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid (Mark 16:5-8).(n1)
A fairy tale is a reasoning image. It tends to associate extraordinary images as though they could be coherent images,imparting the conviction of a primal image to an entire ensemble of derivative images. But the tie is so facile, and the reasoning so fluid, that soon we no longer know where the germ of the tale lies.(n2) ...
By George Aichele
The fantastic elements in the Gospel of Mark open disturbing possibilities as they countervail the Jesus myth that has dominated Christian tradition.
And going into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting in the right-hand part, wearing a white robe. And they were startled into amazement. But he said to them: Do not be thus amazed. You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen, he is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go and tell his disciples, and Peter: He goes before you into Galilee. There you will see him, as he told you. And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and panic had hold of them. And they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid (Mark 16:5-8).(n1)
A fairy tale is a reasoning image. It tends to associate extraordinary images as though they could be coherent images,imparting the conviction of a primal image to an entire ensemble of derivative images. But the tie is so facile, and the reasoning so fluid, that soon we no longer know where the germ of the tale lies.(n2) ...
