The Messianic Secret (Issues in religion and theology)

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800617673
• ISBN13: 9780800617677
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

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Can you keep a secret? So can Mark!

In Mark's gospel Jesus always seems to be tryng to keep his identity as Messiah a secret. Why? This question has puzzled biblical scholars for many, many years. Scholarship has shifted from seeing Jesus' secrecy as an element in his own life/personality to seeing it as a dominant feature of Mark's theology. Is it Mark's attempt to "apologize" for jesus' failure? Is it just a literary device to highlight Jesus' fame? How far are the secrecy texts to be traced back to Jesus himself? This book contains 9 articles by a variety of scholars on this question. Very interesting stuff.