Kata Markon

["Vince Endris" <vince_endris AT hotmail.com>]

GMark list,

I have recently been reading on the second temple and cult.  It seems that 
there was a widespread dislike of the priests - that they were no longer 
legitimate and, as with the DDS, that they were profaning the temple.  This 
might have been the historical Jesus' reason for overturning the tables 
(Sanders).  It struck me that Mark having the vale tear (I am assuming he 
meant the inner vale) might be suggesting that the atoning sacrifice offered 
by the high priest was not sufficient but Jesus' was.  This might account 
for the popularity of nascent Christianity.  Is this a valid argument for 
what Mark is trying to say?  Do you know of anywhere else I might look for 
evidence of this interpretation?

Vince Endris