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In this volume, Martin Hengel argues for the traditional view of the origin of the Gospel of Mark—that Mark wrote in Rome in AD 69, basing his work on the tradition handed down to him by Peter. Including an appendix on the reliability of the synoptic tradition by distinguished classical philologist Wolfgang Schadewalt, Studies in the Gospel of Mark is a direct challenge to the radical views of...

that the question of the messianic authority and mission of Jesus gives the whole work its unity and that the theme of hiddenness is an essential part of it. However, all this is not artificially foisted on recalcitrant material, but is bound up with the innermost nature of the event that is described. Moreover, the whole complex has far more layers and is much more complicated than has been long assumed. Thus the way of Jesus to the cross, his expiatory death for the many and the disciples’ taking
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