Action Gospel
Mark's Gospel: structure and narrative make-up

Recently I have seen a picture of the middle circular road in Pest. It was an areal photo on which someone drew a red line following the curve of the road, but crossing over to Buda turning the line into a beautiful Fibonacci arc that spiraled inward and finally landed on the top of Gellert hill. The author of the picture attributed this to a conscious design decision from the part of the urban designers of these roads. I am not entirely sure if that is the case, but if it so than we should quickly disect the map of Pest looking for similar clues.

The gospel writing of Mark is very similar, with lots of signs and signals encoded into it's fabric on different layers. It isn't selfserving, neither does it contain a next hidden message, but it focuses and emphasises everything that is otherwise accesible on the surface too. It brings out the internal symmetries and rhymes beautifully and very efficiently by magnifying and accenting them nicely.

If you decide to choose my seminar, then i will try to show you a cross-section of the story and it's telling of it that might point you towards new directions in your future Mark studies. I am hopeing you are going to leave with different glasses on, or with a much finer tuned hearing that is going to be able to hear many more instruments in this grandiouse symphony Mark has composed.

Tamás Schauermann: I am a former high school teacher, currently working as a designer, otherwise husband and father, a thinker and a pleasant coffee partner.

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