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This innovative study makes a major contribution to the long
scholarly discussion of the problematic geography of "Mark's
Gospel". Using both modern spatial theory and an exhaustive review
of ancient evidence, Stewart demonstrates how Mark's spatial
perceptions reflect Greek, Roman and Jewish understandings of human
geography. He addresses Mark's editorial and compositional control
over the geographic presentation of Jesus' ministry, ultimately
arguing that in Mark, Jesus offers a unique spatial practice.
Unlike other New Testament persons described in the Paul's
Social Network Series, Peter was a member of Jesus' inner circle
during his life and ministry in Galilee. In "Peter," Eric Stewart
explores the depictions of Peter that appear throughout the New
Testament for insights into who he was. Readers will learn what it
means that Peter was a villager and a fisherman, a holy person, an
authorized change agent, a moral entrepreneur, a healer, a speaker,
and a writer. In the end, they will understand Peter's message, and
the message of his Master, far more deeply.
"Eric C. Stewart is assistant professor of religion at Augustana
College in Rock Island, Illinois. He is the author of "Gathered
around Jesus: An Alternative Spatial Practice in the Gospel of
Mark.
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.
"The Social World of the New Testament: Insights and Models"
surveys essential contributions made by leading scholars of the
social-scientific approach to New Testament studies. Including
important essays by Bruce J. Malina and John J. Pilch, among
others, this book acts as a comprehensive collection of the most
important essays and articles in the field. Included are topics
vital to the social scientific interpretation of the New Testament,
organized under three headings:
INSTITUTIONS
- Kinship: All in the Family: Kinship in Agrarian Roman
Palestine--K. C. Hanson
- The Patron-Client Institution: God in the Letter of James: Patron
or Benefactor?--Alicia Batten
- Economics: Jesus and Agrarian Palestine: The Factor of
Debt--Douglas E. Oakman
CULTURE
- Honor and Shame: Loss of Wealth, Loss of Family, Loss of Honor:
The Cultural Context of the Original Makarisms in Q--Jerome H.
Neyrey, SJ
- Purity: The Epistle of James in Rhetorical and Social-Scientific
Perspective: Holiness-Wholeness and Patterns of Replication-- John
H. Elliott
- Social Location: Was Jesus a Peasant: Implications for Reading
the Jesus Tradition (Luke 10:30-35)--Douglas E. Oakman
- Social Location: The Social Location of the Markan
Audience--Richard L. Rohrbaugh
- Gender: Who Should Be Called "Father"? Paul of Tarsus between the
Jesus Tradition and Patria Potestas--S. Scott Bartchy
- Space: "Teaching You in Public and from House to House" (Acts
20:20): Unpacking a Cultural Stereotype--Jerome H. Neyrey, SJ
- Healing: Healing in Luke-Acts--John J. Pilch
- Evil Eye: Paul, Galatians, and the Evil Eye-- John H.
Elliott
- Limited Good: "He Must Increase, I Must Decrease"(John 3:30): A
Cultural and Social Interpretation--Richard L. Rohrbaugh and Jerome
H. Neyrey
MODAL PERSONALITY
- Modal Personality: Ancient Mediterranean Persons in Cultural
Perspective: Portrait of Paul--Jerome H. Neyrey, SJ and Bruce J.
Malina
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