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

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

by Santiago Guijarro

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781666729801
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date: 04/14/2022
Series: Matrix: The Bible in Mediterranean Context , #14
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 188
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Santiago Guijarro is Professor of New Testament Studies at the Pontifical University of Salamanca (Spain).
Santiago Guijarro was born in Illescas (Spain) in 1957. He became an ordained Catholic Priest 1981 and received a Masters in Sacred Scripture - Pontifical Biblical Institute of Rome (Italy) and Doctorate in Theology (Ph. D.) Pontifical University of Salamanca (Spain).

Since 1996 he has been teaching at the Pontifical University of Salamanca, where he is currently Professor of New Testament. He is a member of the Spanish Biblical Association and the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas.

His lines of research are: 1) The Gospels: their formation process, the literary and theological orientation of each one of them, as well as their reception in the ancient Church; 2) The origins of Christianity: the first diffusion of Christianity, its roots in the Roman Empire, the practices and beliefs of the first Christians; and 3) The social sciences as a resource to reconstruct the context of the New Testament texts.
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