This study sets out to interpret the Marcan Temple incident (Mark 11 15-19) as a distancing
device by which the Marcan faction differentiates itself from other Jews especially the
anti-Roman revolutionaries who had turned the temple in Jerusalem into 'a den of bandits'
during the Jewish revolt between 66 and 74 CE. It concentrates on the interactions between the
Marcan faction and other Jewish factions in the context of its Jewish symbolic universe. The
study concludes that the Marcan faction is 'Jewish but differently'.
