Questioning the Questions around Jesus’s Authority in Mark 11:27–33: A Performance Perspective

The rise of performance criticism prompts questions about its relationship to other disciplines, most notably narrative criticism. While narrative critics traditionally focus solely on the textual elements within their cultural context, performance critics adopt a broader understanding of the term “...

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主要作者: Whitenton, Michael R. (Author)
格式: 電子 Article
語言:English
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出版: MDPI 2023
In: Religions
Year: 2023, 卷: 14, 發布: 8
Further subjects:B cognitive narratology
B Baptism
B Jesus
B Ancient Rhetoric
B Gospel of Mark
B 行為藝術
B Inference
B Questions
B audience analysis
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總結:The rise of performance criticism prompts questions about its relationship to other disciplines, most notably narrative criticism. While narrative critics traditionally focus solely on the textual elements within their cultural context, performance critics adopt a broader understanding of the term “text”, encompassing not only the cultural context but also performative aspects, such as the setting for public reading, the involvement of a skilled performer, and dynamics introduced by a diverse performance audience. This article demonstrates the distinctiveness of a performance-critical approach through a reappraisal of Mark 11:27–33, showing how such an approach yields different interpretive results when compared to traditional narrative criticism. More specifically, whereas traditional narrative readings generally conclude that Jesus is merely evading his interlocutors, I argue that a performance-critical approach suggests that many ancient listeners would have concluded that the lector-as-Jesus was insinuating, for those with ears to hear, that Jesus’s authority derives from God and was granted at his baptism.
ISSN:2077-1444
Contains:Enthalten in: Religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3390/rel14080972