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Teaching Mark through a postcolonial optic

Author(s) -

Jeremy Punt

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

hts teologiese studies / theological studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.282

H-Index - 15

eISSN - 2072-8050

pISSN - 0259-9422

DOI - 10.4102/hts.v71i1.2970

Subject(s) - gospel , hybridity , ambiguity , ambivalence , interpretation (philosophy) , context (archaeology) , sociology , framing (construction) , epistemology , aesthetics , philosophy , history , literature , art , linguistics , anthropology , psychology , psychoanalysis , archaeology

This contribution explores the potential value of a postcolonial approach for teaching Mark’s gospel. Investigating a number of texts from the gospel, it asks to what extent a postcolonial optic implies a different approach to the gospel, what it adds and where challenges exist. Teaching with a postcolonial optic entails framing the gospel in its 1st-century imperial context and focusing on the ambivalence and ambiguity of imperial rule, investigating texts with attention to hybridity and mimicry in particular. Teaching the Gospel of Mark through a postcolonial optic opens up new possibilities for interpretation and contextualisation, but at the same time poses certain challenges, pedagogically and otherwise

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