Jesus and the Missional Movement in Galilee: Markan Spatial Presentation and Its Hermeneutical Significance

Jesus and the Missional Movement in Galilee: Markan Spatial Presentation and Its Hermeneutical Significance
ISBN-10
1498202950
ISBN-13
9781498202954
Category
Religion
Pages
276
Language
English
Published
2019-07-10
Publisher
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Author
Sun Wook Kim

Description

In New Testament scholarship, the study of space has been underrepresented in comparison with the study of time. While Jesus’ life and ministry have been intensively explored in terms of eschatology—i.e., with time significance—space has tended to be treated as simply a given room or inactive backdrop where events took place. Interest in the space where Jesus ministered has, however, gradually increased, and space has received greater attention from sociological and literary perspectives. In particular, spatial investigations into the social circumstances of Galilee, the place of origin of Jesus’ missional movement, have begun to attract serious scholarly attention. The important functions of space in literature are also becoming better recognized: spatial settings serve not only to generate atmosphere but also to disclose the purposes and themes of narratives. This book explores Jesus’ Galilean ministry in Mark 4:35—8:21 through the use of spatial analysis, dividing space into three categories: social, geographical, and allusive. The study of each space discovers social, literary, and theological implications of Jesus’ missional movement in Galilee.

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