Main Politics of Parousia: Reading Mark Inter(Con)Textually (Biblical Interpretation Series)

Politics of Parousia: Reading Mark Inter(Con)Textually (Biblical Interpretation Series)

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This volume moves literary criticism of the Gospels further into the socio-political struggle for liberation - particularly, into the realm of colonial/postcolonial discourse. Taking seriously the thought that Mark's Gospel was written under Roman colonization, and using "inter(con)-textuality" as an underlying theory, it examines the relation between Mark's story of Jesus and colonial politics, especially Mark's emphasis on the parousia and his constructions of colonial subjects. It argues that Mark's apocalyptic simultaneously resists and reinscribes colonial ideology in terms of three subject-positions and subject-matters: authority, agency, and gender. Juxtaposing apocalyptic and politics, dissidence and duplication as well as Chinese American narratives and the Markan test, this volume seeks to rethink the struggle for social change and the relationship between cultural politics and Gospel studies.
Request Code : ZLIBIO464800
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Year:
1999
Publisher:
Brill Academic Publishers
Language:
English
Pages:
204
ISBN 10:
9004113606
ISBN 13:
9789004113602
ISBN:
9004113606,9789004113602
Series:
Biblical Interpretation Series 42

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