Description: Modern theorists are virtually united in understanding
that space encodes social practices and power relations. Those who
control space exert their control by means of particular spatial
practices. Models of critical spatiality, such as that of
territoriality, show how social relationships are predominant in
the classification, communication, and control of space. Space is
seen as a relational category rather than an absolute category. In
this innovative study, Stewart addresses Mark's editorial and/or
compositional control over the geographic presentation of Jesus's
ministry. He makes the case that Mark presents the world spatially
in a manner widely consistent with geographic traditions found in
Greek and Roman texts. In Mark, Stewart argues, Jesus offers an
alternative spatial practice, one that is centered on himself. The
kingdom of God exists spatially in the area around Jesus in which
the new community ""gathers."" Endorsements: ""In a splendid
presentation, Eric R. Stewart guides the reader through the
intricacies of critical social theory of spatiality and argues that
Mark eschews the space of the synagogue, house, and city in which
to locate the movement of Jesus, and instead founds Jesus's
movement in the borderland territories of the wilderness/desert,
the sea, and the mountain. There Jesus creates the new space of the
kingdom of God in gathering people around himself. This is an
important book."" --Dietmar Neufeld Associate Professor of
Christian Origins Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and
Religious Studies University of British Columbia ""For the first
time in the long scholarly discussion of Mark's problematic
geography, Stewart uses both modern spatial theory and an
exhaustive review of ancient evidence to demonstrate how Mark's
spatial perceptions reflect Greek, Roman, and Jewish understandings
of human geography. Moving well beyond the anachronistic studies
that have dominated the discussion to date, he has provided a
significant advance in the study of the Gospel of Mark."" --Richard
Rohrbaugh Professor Emeritus of New Testament Lewis and Clark
College About the Contributor(s): Eric C. Stewart is Visiting
Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame. He is
co-editor of two volumes: In Other Words: Essays on Social Science
Methods and the New Testament in Honor of Jerome H. Neyrey and The
Social World of the New Testament: Insights and Models.
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