"What is the lesson of that other, newly sprung tree (the cross) in
whose bark Mark has carved his Gospel (for this is a book that
bleeds)? Is it that Jesus's body, grafted onto the cross, became
one with it, and thus became tree, branch, book, and leaf,
inscribed with letters of blood, can now at last be read, no longer
an indecipherable code but an open codex? And that in its (now)
re(a)d(able) ink, lately invisible, the message that was scratched
into the fig tree is transcribed: outside the gates, but only just,
the summer Son is shining in full strength?"--Stephen D. Moore In
this book Stephen D. Moore offers a dazzling new reading of the
Gospels of Mark and Luke, applying the poststructuralist techniques
of Derrida, Lacan, and Foucault to illuminate these texts in a way
that no one has done before. Written with wit and a sensitivity to
words--and wordplay--that is reminiscent of Moore's fellow
countryman James Joyce, the book is also deeply learned, impressive
in its detailed knowledge of previous scholarship as well as in the
challenges it presents to that scholarship. Moore argues that
whereas the language of the Gospels is concrete, pictorial, and
often startling, the language of modern gospel scholarship tends to
be propositional and abstract. Calling himself a New
Test-what-is-meant scholar, he approaches the Gospels of Mark and
Luke as though they were pictograms or dreamwork to decipher and
interpret, writing a response that is no less visceral and
immediate than the biblical texts themselves.
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