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Mockery and Secretism in the Social World of Mark's Gospel

Having established the context of mockery and shame in Ancient Mediterranean cultures, Dietmar Neufeld shows how Mark presented Jesus as a person with a sense of honour and with a sense of shame, willing to accept the danger of being visible and the mockery it attracted. Neufeld also considers the social functions of ridicule/mockery more broadly as strategies of social sanction, leading to a better understanding of how social, religious, and political practices and discourse variously succeeded or failed in Mark. Finally, Neufeld investigates the author of Mark's preoccupation with 'secrecy',

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  • "Having established the context of mockery and shame in Ancient Mediterranean cultures, Dietmar Neufeld shows how Mark presented Jesus as a person with a sense of honour and with a sense of shame, willing to accept the danger of being visible and the mockery it attracted. Neufeld also considers the social functions of ridicule/mockery more broadly as strategies of social sanction, leading to a better understanding of how social, religious, and political practices and discourse variously succeeded or failed in Mark. Finally, Neufeld investigates the author of Mark's preoccupation with 'secrecy',"@en
  • ""Dietmar Nuefeld shows how the author of Mark situates his gospel in the rich social dynamic of mockery, honour and dishonour, and within a culture of visibility and debilitating shame. Neufeld maintains that in order for audiences to witness and evaluate Jesus' activities, Mark deliberately thrust Jesus into the limelight of public exposure. In the glare of publicity he was tested, probed, challenged and jeered at by sceptical listeners and yet found to be a wise teacher, powerful exorcist and healer, and immune to the worst of the accusations levelled at him. Neufeld also contends that the messianic secrecy motif does not give adequate answer to Mark's craft as storyteller. Neufeld thus investigates the author of Mark's preoccupation with 'secrecy, ' showing that his disposition to secrecy heightens when the dangers of scorn and ridicule from crowds or person became pressing concerns ... In short, the so-called secrecy motif is shown to be deployed for specific, strategic reasons that differ from those that have been traditionally advanced"--"@en

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  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"
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