ABSTRACT
Sensitive readers, who want to hear more than their own ideas echoing back from the text, know that they need to attend to the signals within the text that can keep the reader on course. These signals are especially important for the reader of Mark, who is separated from the teller of the story and the subject of the story by almost two millennia of radical changes in the perception of reality and commitment to values. Reading Mark jolts us into the awareness of an understanding of the world that is in conflict with our own.
