462 Gustavo Martin debate. To what extent is the speech an answer to the disciples’ question? Has the Markan Jesus addressed the two-part question directly and are there clear indicators of this in the language and structure of the speech? Conversely, is the speech a partial answer in which the Markan Jesus addresses the question, as well as adding information not requested by the disciples? A majority of scholars have sided with the latter view. Thus Beasley-Murray believes there is much in the speech that appears unrelated to the prophecy and question (20). Trocmé argues that, in the speech, the Markan Jesus addresses not the temple and the timing of its destruction, but the parousia (21). Hooker sees much of the speech being directed not to the disciples, but to the readers of the gospel (22). The determination of the referent of tau'ta … panta in the disciples’ question (v. 4) and throughout the speech (v. 23; v 29, 30) is rightly considered crucial for connecting the speech to the question, as we will see below. Unfortunately widespread confusion about the referent of tevlo" in the speech has clouded scholarly vision and led to the blurring of compositional boundaries fixed by Mark (23). In the below section-by-section analysis we will show that tevlo" is not likely to refer to anything after v. 23 in the speech, a fact not precluding the opening of a new narrative horizon at verse 24, which Mark does without recourse to the word “end”. In their approach to the structure of the speech itself, literary and rhetorical critics have expressed a commitment to let a thorough analysis of the text itself reveal Mark’s structure, ahead of other metho- dological considerations. This is a positive change from the source and form critical approaches that have been bound up with the study of the structure of the speech since the publication and widespread acceptance of Colani’s Little Apocalypse thesis (24). Thus Hooker (25), (20) BEASLEY-MURRAY, Last Days, 356. (21) TROCMÉ, L’Évangile, 323-324. (22) HOOKER, The Gospel, 298-300. (23) The referent of tevlo" is identified by a majority of scholars as the “parousia”, or the “end of the world”, even if these terms are foreign to Mark. Thus PESCH, Naherwartungen, 121; HOOKER, Mark, 299-300; BEASLEY-MURRAY, Last Days, 374; TROCMÉ, L’Évangile, 322; VILLOTA HERRERO, Palabras, 185; ROBBINS, “Rhetorical Ritual”, 103; BALABANSKI, Eschatology, 74; GEDDERT, Watchwords, 226; LANE, The Gospel, 448. (24) See the discussion in BEASLEY-MURRAY, Last Days, 32-79. (25) HOOKER, The Gospel, 298. For Hooker, the speech shows “clear signs of having been pieced together” (297).