RT Article
T1 Mark 2.15 in Even Broader Context: A Reflection
JF Journal for the study of the New Testament
VO 48
IS 3
SP 548
OP 555
A1 Malbon, Elizabeth Struthers 1947-
LA English
YR 2026
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1963002105
AB My original article on the referent of "his house" in Mark 2.15 was published in 1985 as "TH OIKIA AYTOY: Mark 2.15 in Context" in NTS 31: 282-92. This brief essay is both a look back to that short article and its original context and a look forward to where I went from there and to this present volume. That is, this reflection is putting Mk 2.15 into an even broader context. My own research trajectory was from Lévi-Straussian structuralism to narrative criticism and from narrative space to narrative characterization. The consistent thread has been appreciating relationships - and relationships between relationships: how parts relate within the whole, how individual elements of Mark's narrative contribute to its overall meaning, and how that overall meaning is tensive, challenging, surprising, and open-ended.
K1 Characterization
K1 Mk 2.15
K1 House
K1 Literary Criticism
K1 Narrative Criticism
K1 Narrative Space
K1 Structuralism
K1 Tension
K1 οἰκία
K1 οἶκος
DO 10.1177/0142064X251411309