Honor Among Christians Tammy M. Proctor all written by distinguished scholars

all written by distinguished scholars of religion and philosophy rather than devotees

from the local to systemic

Showcases eight merged methods research approaches

Often described as a maritime Sherlock Holmes

The acquiescence of Lewis Carroll's Alice

Honor Among Christians Tammy M. Proctor all written by distinguished scholarsReaders have long puzzled over peculiar aspects of the Gospel of Mark: Jesus' attempts to conceal his deeds and his identity. William Wrede called these and similar motifs the "messianic secret" in Mark, and proposed that Mark had invented the "secret" to explain why the announcement of the arrival of the Son of God had not taken the world by storm. Other scholars have disagreed: perhaps Mark meant to highlight Jesus' divinity (after all, Jesus