According to Howard Clark Kee's 1990 review of Roth's Hebrew Gospel: cracking the code of Mark, these areas are poorly covered and have yet to be resolved (at least by 1988 when Roth wrote this book):
- inadequate attention to Mark's apocalyptic nature (Mk 13, and the demonic confrontation)
- the issue of redefining the people of God is virtually ignored
- Jesus and the Temple is misrepresented. Roth states that reestablishing the Temple is an aim of Jesus', but this is not apparent (acc. to Kee) in Mark's gospel
- no attention given to the fact that most of Mark's engagement with the OT actually comes out of LXX, not MT. (So there may be a need for closer attention to verbal/language-level connections)
- DSS are not explored
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