Dietmar Neufeld is Associate Professor in the Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Neufeld effectively argues that Mark’s secretism is not a ‘secrecy motif‘ aimed at hiding Jesus’ identity, nor is secrecy employed as a mode of revelation. Rather, the secretism in Mark’s Gospel is a literary device the author uses to shield Jesus from situations in which he could be vulnerable to mockery … a viable and engaging alternative to the ‘Messianic Secret’ as an explanation of the motif of secretism in Mark’s Gospel.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Modes of Mocking and Being Mocked in the Graeco-Roman World2. The Messianic Secret in Recent Studies3. Secretism and Mockery4. Mark’s Gospel as Narrative in Real Time: Chronicle, Mimesis and Plot5. Mark, Mockery, Secretism, and Jesus: Markery…the Art of Telling a Good StoryAncient Sources IndexSubjects IndexAuthors Index

Dietmar Neufeld is Associate Professor in the Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Neufeld effectively argues that Mark’s secretism is not a ‘secrecy motif‘ aimed at hiding Jesus’ identity, nor is secrecy employed as a mode of revelation. Rather, the secretism in Mark’s Gospel is a literary device the author uses to shield Jesus from situations in which he could be vulnerable to mockery … a viable and engaging alternative to the ‘Messianic Secret’ as an explanation of the motif of secretism in Mark’s Gospel.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Modes of Mocking and Being Mocked in the Graeco-Roman World2. The Messianic Secret in Recent Studies3. Secretism and Mockery4. Mark’s Gospel as Narrative in Real Time: Chronicle, Mimesis and Plot5. Mark, Mockery, Secretism, and Jesus: Markery…the Art of Telling a Good StoryAncient Sources IndexSubjects IndexAuthors Index

Dietmar Neufeld is Associate Professor in the Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Neufeld effectively argues that Mark’s secretism is not a ‘secrecy motif‘ aimed at hiding Jesus’ identity, nor is secrecy employed as a mode of revelation. Rather, the secretism in Mark’s Gospel is a literary device the author uses to shield Jesus from situations in which he could be vulnerable to mockery … a viable and engaging alternative to the ‘Messianic Secret’ as an explanation of the motif of secretism in Mark’s Gospel.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Modes of Mocking and Being Mocked in the Graeco-Roman World2. The Messianic Secret in Recent Studies3. Secretism and Mockery4. Mark’s Gospel as Narrative in Real Time: Chronicle, Mimesis and Plot5. Mark, Mockery, Secretism, and Jesus: Markery…the Art of Telling a Good StoryAncient Sources IndexSubjects IndexAuthors Index