The Gospel of Mark in Context: A Social-Scientific Reading of the First Gospel

The Gospel of Mark in Context: A Social-Scientific Reading of the First Gospel
ISBN-10
1666734195
ISBN-13
9781666734195
Category
Religion
Pages
188
Language
English
Published
2022-04-14
Publisher
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Author
Santiago Guijarro

Description

The short story that we now know as the Gospel according to Mark was written in Greek twenty centuries ago in the context of an agrarian society that had been developing its own characteristics in the circum-Mediterranean region. Mark's account presupposes the values, institutions, and relationships of the culture in which Jesus and his first followers lived. Modern readers of the Gospels, however, especially those born and raised in the North Atlantic postindustrial societies, have other values and institutions, and relate to each other according to other cultural codes. This temporal and cultural distance between the ancient texts and their present-day readers makes necessary an exegetical effort whose purpose is to recover, as far as possible, the reading scenarios presupposed by these texts. In order to reconstruct these scenarios, exegesis has turned in recent years to the social sciences, whose models permit us to imagine and describe the situations presupposed by these ancient texts. This book aims to show how the use of these scenarios elaborated with the help of the social sciences can contribute to a more considered and respectful reading of Mark's story.

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