Applying a literary and reader-oriented approach, this book asks what the Gospel of Mark refers to when it promises ""the coming of the Son of Man"" (13:24-27). This reading not only provides the solution to the various difficulties in understanding those verses, but, unlike other readings, it allows Mark 13:24-27 to be read as an integral part of the Gospel according to Mark. An examination of the wider narrative of the Gospel and Mark 13 itself,...