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Mockery and Secretism in the Social World of Mark's Gospel (Paperback)
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Mockery and Secretism in the Social World of Mark's Gospel (Paperback)
Series: The Library of New Testament Studies
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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 his 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.
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