RT Book
T1 Mockery and secretism in the social world of Mark's gospel
T2 Library of New Testament studies
T2 T & T Clark library of biblical studies
A1 Neufeld, Dietmar
LA English
PP London New York
PB Bloomsbury T & T Clark
YR 2014
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1788810325
AB "Having established the context of mockery and shame in Ancient Mediterranean cultures, Dietmar Neufeld shows how Mark presented Jesus as a person with a sense of honour and with a sense of shame, willing to accept the danger of being visible and the mockery it attracted. Neufeld also considers the social functions of ridicule/mockery more broadly as strategies of social sanction, leading to a better understanding of how social, religious, and political practices and discourse variously succeeded or failed in Mark. Finally, Neufeld investigates the author of Mark's preoccupation with 'secrecy', showing that the author of Mark's disposition to secrecy in his narrative heightened when the dangers of scorn and ridicule from crowds or persons became pressing concerns. In a fiercely competitive literary environment where mocking and being mocked were ever present dangers, Mark, in his pursuit of authority gains it by establishing a reputation of possessing authentic, secret knowledge. In short, the so-called secrecy motif is shown to be deployed for specific, strategic reasons that differ from those that have been traditionally advanced."--Bloomsbury Publishing
AB Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Modes of Mocking and Being Mocked in the Graeco-Roman World -- 2. The Messianic Secret in Recent Studies -- 3. Secretism and Mockery -- 4. Mark's Gospel as Narrative in Real Time: Chronicle, Mimesis and Plot -- 5. Mark, Mockery, Secretism, and Jesus: Markery...the Art of Telling a Good Story -- Ancient Sources Index -- Subjects Index -- Authors Index
NO Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-197) and indexes
CN BS2585.52
SN 0567062023
SN 9780567062024
K1 Jesus Christ : Humiliation
K1 Jesus Christ
K1 Bible : Mark : Criticism, interpretation, etc
K1 Bible
K1 RELIGION ; Biblical Studies ; Jesus, the Gospels & Acts
K1 RELIGION ; Biblical Studies ; New Testament
K1 Humiliation
K1 Criticism, interpretation, etc