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Honor Among Christians - The Cultural Key to the Messianic Secret (Paperback)
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Readers 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
usually doesn't succeed in keeping himself hidden )...or perhaps
Mark wanted to tie Jesus' identity to his destiny on the cross as a
warning to disciples that they may face persecution. Or, some have
proposed, there simply is no single explanation for all of Jesus'
bewildering behaviors in the Gospel. David F. Watson brings a new
perspective to the "messianic secret," relying not on the
Christological concerns of nineteenth- and twentieth-century
theologians, but on recent insights into the role of honor and
shame in ancient Mediterranean culture on the part of social
scientists. Mark's portrayal of Jesus simultaneously shows his
ability to provide favors and benefits to others and his refusal to
put himself forward or draw attention to himself as a benefactor,
thereby teaching that in God's kingdom it is not the great and
powerful who are most highly regarded, but the humble. Mark's
depiction of Jesus is part of a larger effort to promote a
radically different understanding of honor within the family of
faith. Contents Adobe Acrobat Document Introduction Adobe Acrobat
Document Preface Adobe Acrobat Document Chapter 1 Adobe Acrobat
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downloading and viewing PDF samples? "Taking up and refining
insights from recent social-scientific exegetical research on
secrecy in the Ancient Mediterranean world, Watson convincingly
demonstrates that Wrede's Messianic Secret hypothesis is entirely
culturally implausible. Concealment passages in Mark primarily
reflect the day-to-day concerns about honor and shame among early
believers who would have understood the Gospel to be addressing
these issues." -John J. Pilch Georgetown University "David Watson
has written a scholarly and very useful monograph. His soundings
into the roles of secrecy in the ancient Mediterranean would
further illustrate the value of anthropological history. Perhaps
now Wrede's understanding of the 'Messianic Secret' in Mark may
finally be laid to rest." -Bruce J. Malina Creighton University
"Honor among Christians evinces perhaps the most thorough
deployment of cultural anthropology for understanding Mark's Gospel
that I know, and one of the most sophisticated. Watson convincingly
argues that Wrede's durable prism of 'the Messianic secret' has
occluded our exegetical vision, which may be corrected by adopting
lenses more appropriate to Mark's own social world. The text, not a
method, remains focal in Watson's analysis, which opens rather than
shuts down a broad range of productive conversation with other
interpretive approaches. This is a work of genuine importance,
chiefly because it illumines how subversive the Second Gospel was
in its own place and time-and remains so in our own." -C. Clifton
Black Otto A. Piper Professor of Biblical Theology Princeton
Theological Seminary
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