Version Two (of "Reality Search" Analysis)
Value Frameworks
by Michelle Nailon
Sample Page at Random, page 25
... attempt at translation. It was probably not the first language of the writer and was itself a translation. The text has a style that is both short and graphic, for example if people sit on the grass Mark notes that the grass is green.
It is demonstrated in "Reality Search" that three of the four paragraph Sections in the first gospel are written in a concentric circle pattern. That is, the paragraphs are written in terms of a 'pair' and these form a pattern of A B C D C B A. etc.
Mark's Section C on "the child" has a different format.
Section A here appears to be about a society that is based upon law. Section B is about a society based upon place. Section C is about the "child" that passes between the two types of societies. Section D is also in a concentric circle. It is about the struggle of the individual to cope in their social environment. There is an additional, short passage at the end of this gospel. However as older manuscripts leave this out it is not included in Reality Search.
Technically how may a gospel writer have put his text together? It is possible the writer was working on tables a couple of metres long. The writer and possibly helpers could have put the text together like a mosaic, matching this or that piece of papyrus together to make a point and gathering similar points together into the one Section. The one Section of the gospel could form the one writing scroll. ....
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