Image of John the Baptist in Theophylact of Ochrid’s The Explanation to the Gospel of Mark

Authors

  • Monika Czarnuch Uniwersytet Śląski, Katowice

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12775/BPTh.2014.008

Keywords

Theophylact of Ohrid, Gospel of Mark, byzantine commentaries, John the Baptis

Abstract

Theophylact of Ohrid is the author of the first extant Greek commentary to the entire Gospel of Mark. He considered John the Baptist as a distinctive character in this Gospel. He saw in him the last prophet and the beginning of the Gospel. The commentary offers both literal and allegorical interpretation of many passages mentioning Jesus’s Forerunner. The recognizing of the role of John the Baptist for the specificity of this Gospel and impossibility to depend on the previous commentaries reveal the originality of Theophylact exegesis and his philological and theological competences.

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2014-10-15

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CZARNUCH, Monika. Image of John the Baptist in Theophylact of Ochrid’s The Explanation to the Gospel of Mark. Biblica et Patristica Thoruniensia. Online. 15 October 2014. Vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 27-50. [Accessed 7 July 2025]. DOI 10.12775/BPTh.2014.008.

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Vol. 7 No. 2 (2014)

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The Gospel of Mark

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