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Book Review: Let the Reader Understand: Reader Response Criticism and the Gospel of Mark

daring "creative" postulates and freer use of extracanonical sources. But if historical demonstration is the point, M. cannot be faulted for hewing to the evidence. Another strength is M.'s clarity of style. While the book bristles with footnotes and bibliographical references, the text itself should prove remarkably accessible to the "general reader" who is included in the intended audience. An attempt to keep this audience in mind may, in fact, explain the curiously flippant descriptions that slip occasionally into M.'s otherwise seamless text. The quality of M.'s scholarship and the clarity of his exposition make one look forward to the concluding volume where the full span of his historical reconstruction of Jesus as a "marginal Jew" will be revealed and tested.