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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459353203321

Autore

Duran Nicole Wilkinson

Titolo

The power of disorder [[electronic resource] ] : ritual elements in Mark's passion narrative / / Nicole Wilkinson Duran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : T & T Clark, c2008

ISBN

1-282-86845-4

9786612868450

0-567-44405-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (141 p.)

Collana

Library of New Testament studies ; ; 378

T & T Clark library of biblical studies

Disciplina

226.306

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Vanderbilt University.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Imagining the passion as ritual -- Differentiation : marking ritual, seeing sacrifice -- Repetition in unrepeated time -- Substitution in festival, sacrifice and story -- 'Let the one who understands, understand'.

Sommario/riassunto

Mark's Gospel has been seen as history, or as literature. The tensions between these two approaches point to what neither approach can articulate: the rich and ambiguous connections and disjuncture's between human experience itself and human retelling, remembering, and reliving of that experience. This energetic pulling and resistance between our ordered categories and the chaos of existence fuels Mark's gospel and arguably Christianity itself. With the aid of ritual theory this book seeks to explore that energy in Mark's passion narrative. In particular, Duran uses Catherine Bell's concept of