Well this is supposed to be on the last post...

I don't know what happened but here's the rest of that post on Saturday...for some reason it didn't make it. 

Well we've been studying the New Testament and in particular the book of Mark. Which is very interesting since it's not the first book in the New Testament. According to my professor Dr.Holzapfel, who by the way is such a great and knowledgable guy, he believes Mark was written first out of the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John). He says this because Matthew and Luke borrow quite a bit of material from the book of Mark. It has been a very interesting and informative introduction to the New Testament. 

Some of the best things I've learned in class so far have included the knowledge that Mark had the worst Greek and Luke had the best. Mark wrote in Rome to the Roman's in the late 60's early 70's AD. Mark's primary source was Peter and it is also interesting to note that Mark was not an apostle of Jesus Christ but a follower. The issue of authorship is interesting because some scholars don't think Mark wrote Mark. But one of the counterpoints Dr. Holzapfel issued was that since people generally put their names on books they wrote, it had to be Mark who wrote mark because someone wouldn't put Mark (who nobody really knew) as the author instead of themselves. 

Anyways....lots of "interestings."