Re: In Memoriam Ernst KŠsemann

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Sat Feb 21 1998 - 08:03:19 EST


At 5:50 AM -0600 2/21/98, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>Well, I can't claim any personal acquaintance with KŠsemann, although I
>guess he was at TŸbingen at the time I was in Munich, where I heard Romano
>Guardini instead. However, I've always associated KŠsemann with the dictum
>on Mark's gospel as "a Passion Narrative with a long introduction"--a
>perspective which has certainly profoundly influenced my decades-long
>fascination and thinking on Mark. Is that attribution correct, or was it
>someone else and earlier, who enunciated that notion?

AKM Adam has already written me noting that it was Martin KŠhler who made
that statement about Mark's gospel. Obviously the K with an umlauted A is
the chief thing sticking in my mind--always had a thing for umlauted A's ...

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