Mark's naked disciple
To address the puzzle of the naked young man story in the Gospel of Mark, the article approaches this text through its first verb, συvακoλoυθέω. It suggests that following / discipleship is a subtext. Seeming to invoke verisimilitude, the subtext is shown to be self-referential and metalinguistic. &...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2001
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Neotestamentica
Year: 2001, Volume: 35, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 35-48 |
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| Summary: | To address the puzzle of the naked young man story in the Gospel of Mark, the article approaches this text through its first verb, συvακoλoυθέω. It suggests that following / discipleship is a subtext. Seeming to invoke verisimilitude, the subtext is shown to be self-referential and metalinguistic. "Following" is a fictional index that opens up a gap, creates a time warp, and violates textual space. The text's materiality upsets the reader. The narrato-semiotic analysis leads to an understanding of this text as comedy. It is humorous metalanguage that halts the reader's progress and abandons denotative signification. The young man mimics the disciples, and the text mimics itself and the subtext. The young man text assumes the subtext's role as hermeneutic key. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.10520/EJC83094 |