RT Article T1 Markinische Krisenintervention: Die Schweigegebote als elementare Bausteine in einem situativen, höchst ambigen Jesusbild JF Early christianity VO 15 IS 4 SP 415 OP 438 A1 Blumenthal, Christian 1979- LA German YR 2025 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1915743419 AB Mark creates a highly ambiguous image of Jesus, which shows facets of absolute power and greatest powerlessness in equal measure. The repeated commands of silence (e. g., Mark 1:34; 3:12; 9:9) serve him to maintain the ambiguity of this image throughout the whole narrative. This challenging image design is not of a theoretical nature but Mark's reflex to the existential crisis in which he currently sees his community. He needs the structural ambiguities in his image of Jesus in order to be able to react appropriately - from his perspective - to the so contradictory and unsettling experiences of the people following Jesus: They experience themselves in a tensionfilled simultaneity of a calling to salvation and a danger of losing one's salvation. K1 Ambiguitäten K1 Christusbild K1 Krise K1 Markusevangelium K1 Schweigegebote DO 10.1628/ec-2024-0029