{"id":34547,"date":"2016-03-27T07:30:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T12:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=34547"},"modified":"2016-03-30T09:47:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T14:47:44","slug":"he-has-been-raised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2016\/03\/he-has-been-raised\/","title":{"rendered":"He Has Been Raised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been studying the Gospel of Mark on and off for my entire adult life.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to pretend like I am all holy or that working on it has made me more\u00a0holy. I&#8217;m not, and it hasn&#8217;t. I&#8217;m not going to pretend that my assessment of the disciples is that much different from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/rereading-a-prayer-for-owen-meany\/\">Owen Meany<\/a>&#8216;s, although I do\u00a0try not to swear when describing them. Many of you know that I&#8217;m working on the Mark volume for the BYU New Testament Commentary series. (True story: working on Mark 15:30 made me crazy because every time I read the words &#8220;save yourself,&#8221; I started humming R.E.M.&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/rem\/itstheendoftheworldasweknowitandifeelfine.html\">It&#8217;s the End of the World as We Know It<\/a>&#8221; and thoroughly distracted myself. ) Most of the time, it&#8217;s the same kind of technical slog that I imagine I&#8217;d go through were I writing on any other topic. I spend a lot of time doing things like checking all of the occurrences of a certain verb and their contexts, or wading through article after article about a certain peripheral character&#8217;s motivation, or evaluating the evidence for which textual variant is most likely to have been the earliest reading. It&#8217;s mostly mundane.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?attachment_id=34548\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34548\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-34548\" src=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Albani-Psalter_Frauen_am_Grab-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Albani-Psalter_Frauen_am_Grab\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Albani-Psalter_Frauen_am_Grab-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Albani-Psalter_Frauen_am_Grab.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But working on Mark 16, I was just\u00a0overwhelmed by the reality of the resurrection, despite (or: because) Mark has no resurrection appearance. Every time I read that that young man says &#8220;look&#8211;he isn&#8217;t there. He&#8217;s been raised. See for yourself,&#8221; my heart bursts. I feel the power in those words because what they are describing is true. The holiness of this text touches\u00a0the core of my being and every time I come across those words I am flattened by their power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been studying the Gospel of Mark on and off for my entire adult life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":34548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Albani-Psalter_Frauen_am_Grab.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34547"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34922,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34547\/revisions\/34922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}