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The Secrecy Motif in St Mark's Gospel1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

G. H. Boobyer
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No one book has figured more prominently in the study of St Mark's Gospel in this century than W. Wrede's Das Messiasgeheimnis in den Evangelien, published in 1901. But whilst it has been widely agreed that Wrede focused attention upon a significant Marcan motif and one which to some extent shows the influence of a doctrinal interest, most scholars have rejected Wrede's solution of the secrecy problem.

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New Testament Studies , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , April 1960, pp. 225 - 235
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1960

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2 Das Evangelium nach Markus (Göttingen, 1949), p. 41.Google Scholar

1 See, too, Percy's article ‘Messiashemligheten i Markusevangeliet’, Svensk Exegetisk Arsbok, XVII (Uppsala, 1952), 47–67.Google Scholar

2 Sjöberg refers to Otto's Reich Gottes und Menschensohn, pp. 156 f.

1 Cf. Dibelius, M., Die Formgeschichte des Evangeliums, 3 Aufl., pp. 63–6 (Engl. trans. From Tradition to Gospel (1934), pp. 66–9);Google ScholarBoobyer, G. H., ‘Mark ii. 10a and the Interpretation of the Healing of the Paralytic’, H.T.R. xlvii, 2 (1954), 115–20.Google Scholar

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1 Das Evangelium nach Markus (D. Neue Testament Deutsch, Göttingen, 1949), p. 145.Google Scholar

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1 For Weiss's, J. interpretation of Mark iv. 11 f., etc., see especially D. älteste Evangelium, pp. 52–60 and The History of Primitive Christianity, pp. 663 f., 691–9. Because Weiss did not discern the full implications of Mark iv. 11 f., he regarded the mighty works of Jesus done in public, reports of the widespread fame of Jesus and the triumphal entry into Jerusalem as to some extent inconsistent with the view that outsiders were not to understand.Google Scholar

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1 Markusevangelium (D. Schriften d. Neuen Testaments, Bd. I), p.106.