Latin
III
Instructor: James Ransom
November
25, 2013
Evangelium
Secundum Marcum
Essay Assignment
·
The
essay will be written in class during the announced final examination period.
·
The
essay will be written in the bluebooks provided.
o You may bring one
page of notes and outline. Other materials
may not be consulted during the essay examination period.
o Please write for
the entire examination period. Do not
turn in your bluebooks early.
o When quoting
from the Gospel of Mark, please draw your quotations from the Vulgate text.
§ You may (and are
encouraged to) also consult relevant passages in the other Gospels; these may
be quoted from the Douay-Rheims text.
·
Essay
topics (This is an initial list. Each
class member is responsible for suggesting one or two additional essay topics
upon return from Thanksgiving break.)
(1)
Compare
and contrast the relationship between St. John the Baptist and Herod (Mark
6:14-29) with that of Christ and Pilate (15:1-15)
(2)
Compare
and contrast Christ’s confrontation with the Pharisees (Mk. 7:1-23) with that
of Christ and the Saducees (Mk. 12:18-27)
(3)
Christ
tells his Apostles at Mark 4:11-12:
“Vobis datum est
nosse mysterium regni Dei: illis autem, qui foris sunt, in parabolis omnia
fiunt: ut videntes
videant, et non videant: et audientes audiant, et non intelligant: nequando
convertantur, et dimittantur eis peccata.”
Discuss and explain Christ’s meaning in this
passage.
(4)
At the
climax of the healing of the boy with a “spiritum
mutum” 9:14-29, the boy’s father cries out, “Credo, Domine: adiuva incredulitatem meam” (9:24). Discuss the whole pericope in light of this
seemingly paradoxical utterance.
(5)
At
Mark 4:25, Christ says, “Qui enim habet,
dabitur illi: et qui non habet, etiam quod habet auferetur ab eo.” Yet at
10:25, Jesus astonishes his disciples by progclaiming that “Facilius est, camelum per foramen acus transire, quam
divitem intrare in regnum Dei.” Discuss and reconcile these two
precepts.
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