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Katherine Joy Kihlstrom Timpte addresses a gap in scholarship by
answering the question: "how is a child supposed to be the model
recipient of the kingdom of God?" While most scholarship on Mark
10:13-16 agrees that children are metaphorically employed because
of their qualities of dependence, Timpte argues that it is more
specifically an image of the disciple's radical transformation,
which both mirrors and reverses the traditional rites of passage by
which a child became an adult. Timpte suggests that Jesus, by
insisting that one must enter the Kingdom of God as a child,
invokes two interlacing images. First, to enter the Kingdom of God,
one must be fundamentally transformed and changed. Second, this
transformation reverses the rite by which a child would have become
an adult, removing the adult's superior status. Beginning with a
summary of the scholarship surrounding children in the Bible,
Timpte explores the perception of children in the ancient world,
their rites of passage and entrance into adulthood, and contrasting
this with the processing of entering the kingdom of God, while also
highlighting childish characters in Mark. Timpte concludes that to
enter into the kingdom as a child means that one must strip off
those things one gained by leaving childhood behind: wealth,
respect, family, much like Jesus, who throughout Mark's Gospel
moves from powerful to powerless, respected to despised, and
accepted by all to rejected even (seemingly) by God. Jesus models
transformation to childhood in an emphasis on what the Kingdom of
God is like.
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