Where did it come from?
- ragiuggio
- Aug 14, 2018
- 1 min read
The question has been raised as to where exactly the idea for "Avrum" came from. It really starts with a ten year old me, being fascinated by the story of the Passion of the Christ, believing most of it, but questioning whether it all could have happened that way. So if it didn't happen exactly (or even roughly) the way Mathew, Mark, Luke and John said it did, how DID it happen.
Along the way (admittedly, this wasn't my main obsession as I perambulated through life), I considered all types of scenarios. And then Dan Brown wrote "The Davinci Code", which reawakened my curiosity. I've always believed that Brown's book's main contribution to Western Thought is that it does precisely that; forces one who is a basic believer into investigating the real events of that weekend, a weekend that would shape all of human history. And so I began to dig.
I read all (or at least most of) the works on the subjects. Along the way I discovered a somewhat interesting verse in the Gospel of Mark, a verse so interesting it caused great consternation throughout the Christian world. And so it began.
That verse (chapter 14, verse 52) , almost immediately brought the answer to the questions I had about that fateful weekend in Jerusalem. well, perhaps not "the" answer; but certainly a plausible one.
Much moreover, I was struck by the fact that even with its "uncomfortable" overtones, the verse had remained in mostly all of the versions of Mark that have been published. Given that various factions (the Catholic Church being only one of them) altered the texts from that period (perhaps rather extensively) , the question arises that if indeed that verse is uncomfortable, why not just remove it? It's not like that hadn't been done before.
So I reached the conclusion that the verse IS important, perhaps central…