How Who I am Affects What I See: Reading Mark with Latin American Eyes
This article examines the dynamics of the interpretation of the book of Mark with regard to the social location of the interpreter. On one hand, the original meaning of a text is irremediably unreachable, on the other, the text can only have any meaning through its readers, and it changes with them....
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2010
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Review and expositor
Year: 2010, Volume: 107, Issue: 3, Pages: 395-410 |
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| Summary: | This article examines the dynamics of the interpretation of the book of Mark with regard to the social location of the interpreter. On one hand, the original meaning of a text is irremediably unreachable, on the other, the text can only have any meaning through its readers, and it changes with them. These dynamics allow for the infinite translatability of the Gospel, which makes possible for it to be ‘at home’ in different cultures and social contexts. The Latin American movement of biblical popular reading exemplifies the attempt to make such a translation. It seeks to position common people again as themain interpreters of the biblical text, thereby preventing both the danger of developing a pastoral action without biblical foundations as well as the danger of developing biblical exegesis without any pastoral orientation. In relation specifically to Mark, this interpretive practice produces a reading that does not strip the Gospel of Mark from its political contents, that highlights the viewpoint of the victims of the Empire, that fosters a certain identification between the ‘third-world’ contemporary audiences and the content of the Gospel. Two major themes treated in Mark come to the fore: The Kingdom of God and resistance to the Empire, which continue to represent alternative orders. |
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| ISSN: | 2052-9449 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review and expositor
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/003463731010700311 |