https://trinities.org/blog/podcast-305-two-readings-of-mark-popular-or-esoteric-part-1/
YouTube Show Notes:
What should the reader conclude about Jesus based on the earliest gospel, the gospel according to Mark?
In this and the next episode I present and compare two different approaches to interpreting Mark: treating it as a “popular” writing meant for the masses which wears its message on its face, or as an “esoteric” writing which encodes its most important point about Jesus in all sorts of clever ways, so that only the most discerning reader can retrieve the message.
In this episode I explore the popular reading, explaining how the author employs five
We have to then ask: what about the author doesn’t say here?
And what is the significance of this simple main thesis, when it comes to claims that the author slyly implies Jesus’s “deity,” e.g. by showing him walking on water, or as asserting the right to forgive sins?