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...that consensus faces a spirited challenge. The latest installment of the Anchor Bible, a new study by C.S. Mann, a respected Gospel expert, boldly challenges Mark's precedence as "at best debatable, and at worst indefensible." If Mann is correct, Matthew would be restored as the probable first among equals. The world of biblical scholarship thus appears headed for another round in an old and sometimes heated controversy...
...Anchor Bible volume is the latest in Doubleday's distinguished series of new translations and line-by-line studies of all the biblical books. When completed, the set will consist of 65 volumes by 46 Protestant, Catholic and Jewish experts. Mann's 715-page analysis took nine years to complete. An Anglican clergyman, the author was a Bible professor and dean at St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore from 1968 until his 1983 retirement. He is best known as co-author of a 1971 Anchor Bible volume on the Gospel of Matthew...
Influenced by scholarly skepticism about Mark's priority, Mann decided to examine particularly the ways in which the three Gospels differ about the order of events in Jesus' life. Where such differences exist, Mann shows, Mark rarely departs significantly from Matthew or Luke. There is agreement in most cases between the accounts in Mark and Matthew and, less frequently, between Mark and Luke. To Mann, that is strong evidence that Mark's Gospel derives from the other two. In addition, where Mark and Matthew coincide, both narratives are usually very similar in substance. One of many examples, Mann notes...
Director Brosh knew that the absurd plight of Eleanor Mann's family had to be acted out with comic melodrama. But, as it has often been said, it takes very good acting to portray bad acting well. And unfortunately, the actors portraying the Mann family and their various persecutors aren't quite that good, so that the audience isn't sure how much of the bad acting is intentional. Indeed, it is a relief when the melodrama is dropped, and Eleanor opts for more sincere tones...
Best by default are Thomas E. G. Hale as Ronald and Jacqueline H. Sloane as Elaine May Alcott, who play God's practical jokesters on earth. Sloan must create a huge variety of characters who torment Mrs. Mann, and though she doesn't quite get them all, it's great seeing how much she does pull off. I mention Hale because, while his role is admittedly unstraining, he, at least, doesn't stumble over...