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The Godman and the Sea - The Empty Tomb, the Trauma of the Jews, and the Gospel of Mark (Hardcover)
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The Godman and the Sea - The Empty Tomb, the Trauma of the Jews, and the Gospel of Mark (Hardcover)
Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
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If scholars no longer necessarily find the essence and origins of
what came to be known as Christianity in the personality of a
historical figure known as Jesus of Nazareth, it nevertheless
remains the case that the study of early Christianity is dominated
by an assumption of the force of Jesus's personality on divergent
communities. In The Godman and the Sea, Michael J. Thate shifts the
terms of this study by focusing on the Gospel of Mark, which ends
when Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome discover
a few days after the crucifixion that Jesus's tomb has been opened
but the corpse is not there. Unlike the other gospels, Mark does
not include the resurrection, portraying instead loss, puzzlement,
and despair in the face of the empty tomb. Reading Mark's Gospel as
an exemplary text, Thate examines what he considers to be
retellings of other traumatic experiences-the stories of Jesus's
exorcising demons out of a man and into a herd of swine, his
stilling of the storm, and his walking on the water. Drawing widely
on a diverse set of resources that include the canon of western
fiction, classical literature, the psychological study of trauma,
phenomenological philosophy, the new materialism, psychoanalytic
theory, poststructural philosophy, and Hebrew Bible scholarship, as
well as the expected catalog of New Testament tools of biblical
criticism in general and Markan scholarship in particular, The
Godman and the Sea is an experimental reading of the Gospel of Mark
and the social force of the sea within its traumatized world. More
fundamentally, however, it attempts to position this reading as a
story of trauma, ecstasy, and what has become through the ruins of
past pain.
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