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Author Neufeld, Dietmar, author.

Title Mockery and secretism in the social world of Mark's gospel / Dietmar Neufeld
Published London ; New York : Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 204 pages)
Series Library of New Testament studies ; 503
T & T Clark library of biblical studies
Library of New Testament studies ; 503.
T & T Clark library of biblical studies.
Contents 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
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-197) and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Jesus Christ -- Humiliation.
SUBJECT Jesus Christ fast
Bible. Mark -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Bible. Mark fast
Subject RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Jesus, the Gospels & Acts.
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- New Testament.
Humiliation
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780567062024
0567062023
9780567659033
0567659038