Beloved, I have organized the tables with all the words I am writing so you can find your way around the scriptorium without too much direction from me.
Section | Title | Mark | Luke | Matthew | John | Story | Table |
I | PRAEFATIO | 1 | |||||
1 | Prologus | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.1 | >> | 1 |
Excursus - Gospel | >> | ||||||
Excursus - Jerusalem | >> | ||||||
6 | Genealogia Jesu | 3.23 | 1.2 | >> | 1 |
We had placed a bookmark here, for we were not able to return at first. All this happened a long time ago. First we had to pursue the order that Uncle Mark himself chose. And he omitted the Exordium entirely. But time passed. A year later, we returned to look at the texts from another point of view. A year later. For a whole year, these parts of books occupied a dozen tables in the scriptorium. Continual dusting and care, but no progress in this beginning section.
I learned much in that year. It is a dangerous thing to learn from these books. God has much to teach - not all without pain.
It is not that the introduction was of no interest. It shows the depth of tradition in the faith - and as I think on my own growth, it shows suffering, reproach, slavery, the exploitation of one by another, reaching back to Isaiah and Samuel. It contains great psalms that speak of deliverance and that will be sung for ever. It establishes a history linking the Messiah to the Exodus from Egypt. But all these things were out of scope for John Mark in his desire to move immediately into the ministry of Jesus. And all these were not needed for John who writes of the new creation in a strophic imitation of the first six days and a new understanding of the seventh.
But now we have read the Exordium, which we divided into 11 sections on the first table (though I have omitted one which I will return to later). One section, the genealogy, is repeated from the Prefatio. The other 10 present the announcements, the birth and the early years of Jesus.
Section | Title | Mark | Luke | Matthew | John | Story | Table |
II | EXORDIUM | 1 | |||||
2 | Annuntiatio nativitatis Ioannis | 1.5 | >> | 1 | |||
3 | Annuntiatio nativitatis Christi | 1.26 | >> | 1 | |||
4 | Visitatio Mariae | 1.39 | >> | 1 | |||
5 | Nativitas Ioannis | 1.57 | >> | 1 | |||
Proleptic - Glory | >> | ||||||
7 | Christi nativitas | 2.1 | 1.18 | >> | 1 | ||
8 | Natus Adoratur | 2.8 | 2.1 | >> | 1 | ||
9 | Circumcisio et praesentatio | 2.21 | >> | 1 | |||
Excursus - A Rite | >> | ||||||
10 | Fuga in Aegyptium et reditus | 2.13 | >> | 1 | |||
11 | Puer Jesus in Nazareth | 2.39 | 2.22 | -- | 1 | ||
12 | Puer Jesus in Templo | 2.41 | >> | 1 |
Section | Title | Mark | Luke | Matthew | John | Story | Table |
III | PRAEPARATIO | >> | 1 | ||||
13 | Ioannes Baptista praecursor Domini (Autumn 27) | 1.2 | 3.1 | 3.1 | 1.19 | >> | 1 |
14 | Ioannes paenitentiam praedicat | 3.7 | 3.7 | >> | 1 | ||
15 | Ioannes interrogantibus respondet | 3.10 | >> | 1 | |||
16 | Ioannes Christum evangelizat | 1.7 | 3.15 | 3.11 | 1.24 | >> | 1 |
18 | Baptismus Jesu (March 28) | 1.9 | 3.21 | 3.13 | 1.29 | >> | 1 |
20 | Proleptic - Tentatio | 1.12 | 4.1 | 4.1 | >> | 1 |
Section | Title | Mark | Luke | Matthew | John | Story | Table |
IV | INITIUM MINISTERII PUBLICI | >> | 1 | ||||
21 | Primi discipuli | 1.35 | >> | 1 |
So we begin the fourth of 18 sections. Here are counts of the number of cuttings we made for each of our authors.
Section | Title | Mark | Luke | Matthew | John |
I | PRAEFATIO | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
II | EXORDIUM | 9 | 5 | ||
III | PRAEPARATIO | 4 | 8 | 5 | 3 |
IV | INITIUM MINISTERII PUBLICI | 9 |
V | MINISTERIUM IN GALILAEA | 17 | 17 | 4 | 3 |
VI | SERMO IN MONTE | 27 | |||
VII | SERMO DOMINI | 7 | |||
VIII | MINISTERIUM IN GALILAEA | 29 | 18 | 57 | 5 |
IX | PASSIO IMMINET | 10 | 8 | 15 | 2 |
X | ITER IN JERUSALEM | 64 | |||
XI | INFESTO SCENOPEGIAE JERUSALEM | 13 | |||
XII | MINISTERIUM IN IUDAEA | 8 | 7 | 9 | 7 |
XIII | ULTIMUM MINISTERIUM IN JERUSALEM | 14 | 11 | 14 | 1 |
XIV | SERMO ESCHATALOGICUS | 8 | 7 | 7 | |
XV | CONCLUSIO TEMPORIS ANTE PASSIONEM NARRATI | 1 | 5 | 3 | |
XVI | PASSIO | 23 | 24 | 25 | 31 |
XVII | RESURRECTIO | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
XVIII | EPILOGUS | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Totals | 118 | 186 | 178 | 86 |
1 comment:
Thank you Kathy - I fixed a couple of link errors this morning - they have to be done by hand to link to the Blog stories. I had better not get too far behind. I started this idea 5 years ago and realize that I have a million words to write - but in a job like this who can be in a hurry. I feel strangely blocked at times, but then equally strangely released. The work I did to read and colour the Evangelists 5 years ago is all in a small desktop database so it is easy to produce the many combinations without retyping anything.
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