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Dale Martin does Mark

Dale Martin is an important and frequently controversial NT scholar. Those of us who can't make it to Yale to hear him teach can access some of his lectures, in fact his entire introduction to the NT course, through the magic of the internet.

Here he is holding forth on Mark . . .


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  1. Love Dale! Such an interesting guy.

    Self promotion time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eLe5Skmy-s&t=2532s

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