Timeline for What evidence suggests that Greek was not Mark's first language?

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Jul 30, 2018 at 17:44	comment	added	Sola Gratia		There is also a guy who recently posted here who has written a book/essay arguing Mark was written originally in Latin.. I'm not yet convinced, but it was definitely an interesting read. Not impossible either, if Mark was a companion of Peter at Rome, and who had a Latin name. In this case, the peculiarities of the Greek are accounted for by a rather rigid Latin-to-Greek translation. Also, Mark is more likely a summary of the prior Gospel messages, than they a 'copying' of him, something only really needed to establish the more 'primitive' theology supposedly in Mark.
Jul 30, 2018 at 15:12	comment	added	Ruminator		Does this suggest that "Mark" wrote his gospel by his own hand and it was not subsequently edited? Not bad for a first draft! If he was a country bumpkin then it is a marvel that he can write in any language. But seriously, are we talking about defects or just dialectal concerns? I mean, not all English is spoken or written the same, even in a reasonably literate country such as the USA.
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Jun 27, 2012 at 1:59	history	answered	Jon Ericson	CC BY-SA 3.0