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Discourses of empire : the gospel of Mark from a postcolonial perspective / Hans Leander.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Semeia Studies ; number 71Publisher: Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, [2013]Copyright date: ♭b2013Description: xiv, 388 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781589838895 (pbk : alk. paper)
  • 1589838912 (hardcover binding : alk. paper)
  • 9781589838895 (paper binding : alk. paper)
  • 1589838890 (paper binding : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Gospel of Mark from a postcolonial perspective
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 226.306 Lea 2013 23
LOC classification:
  • BS2585.52 .L43 2013
Contents:
Postcolonial theory -- Postcolonial criticism in biblical studies -- Modern biblical studies and empire -- The Semitic and the Greek (1:1) -- Between man and brute (5:1-20) -- Submissive heathen and superior Greek (7:24-30) -- The embarrassing parousia (8:31-9:1) -- "Only absolutely spiritual" (11:1-11) -- An Irish cat among the pigeons (12:13-17) -- The centurion between East and West (15:39) -- Conclusion: Mark and European colonialism -- Mark begins to circulate -- An oppositional beginning (1:1) -- Imperial satire (5:1-20) -- Entering a narrative crisis (7:24-30) -- The parousia as pharmakon (8:31-9:1) -- With Bhabha at the Jerusalem city gates (11:1-22) -- The emperor breaks the surface (12:13-17) -- The secrecy complex as a third space (15:39) -- How Mark destabilizes empire -- Different Marks in different empires.
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Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Gothenburg, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-370) and index.

Postcolonial theory -- Postcolonial criticism in biblical studies -- Modern biblical studies and empire -- The Semitic and the Greek (1:1) -- Between man and brute (5:1-20) -- Submissive heathen and superior Greek (7:24-30) -- The embarrassing parousia (8:31-9:1) -- "Only absolutely spiritual" (11:1-11) -- An Irish cat among the pigeons (12:13-17) -- The centurion between East and West (15:39) -- Conclusion: Mark and European colonialism -- Mark begins to circulate -- An oppositional beginning (1:1) -- Imperial satire (5:1-20) -- Entering a narrative crisis (7:24-30) -- The parousia as pharmakon (8:31-9:1) -- With Bhabha at the Jerusalem city gates (11:1-22) -- The emperor breaks the surface (12:13-17) -- The secrecy complex as a third space (15:39) -- How Mark destabilizes empire -- Different Marks in different empires.

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