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In The Christology of Mark’s Gospel, author Jack Kingsburgy presents a history of Markan research and the dominant methods used by scholars to interpret Mark’s Christology. Kingsbury poses interpretive problems and provides his own analysis of Christ’s identity as found in Mark’s Gospel.

But if the evangelist did proceed in this manner, what does this say of him as a writer? It suggests, Räisänen maintains, that he was not the original thinker that most scholars make him out to be.47 On the contrary, he was much more a “transmitter” of traditions, as the early form critics recognized.48 And as far as the secret of Jesus’ messianic identity is concerned, this plainly was not so important a motif to the evangelist that he was prepared to free it of the tensions, inconsistencies, and
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