Open AccessBorder-crossing and the Samaritan Traveler
Author(s) -
Matthew Michael
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
stellenbosch theological journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2413-9467
pISSN - 2413-9459
DOI - 10.17570/stj.2019.v5n3.a21
Subject(s) - dynamism , identity (music) , negotiation , subject (documents) , space (punctuation) , field (mathematics) , border crossing , sociology , aesthetics , art , epistemology , philosophy , law , political science , social science , computer science , politics , linguistics , mathematics , library science , pure mathematics
Border-crossing is a defining subject in the contemporary field of postcolonial studies. Situating the parable of the Good Samaritan within this landscape, the present study engages the dynamism of border-crossing in the popular parable of the Good Samaritan. While the parable of the Good Samaritan has been studied from varieties of methodologies and perspectives, the mechanics of border markings – within the fictionality of border space – has generally escaped this study. Using social identity theory in this direction, the work probes the dynamics of group border markings in the characterization of this story – and the significance of this border polemics in the mapping of Luke-Acts. Consequently, the paper offers fresh perspectives to this popular parable in the different negotiations of border markings and the polemics of otherness in this story.