Mark's sowing: The effacement and encrypting of Jesus

[摘要] In traditional hermeneutics and textual criticism, narratives are read in accordance with the trope synecdoche: parts of the narrative are related to the whole and the whole to parts. However, in my analysis, narratives produce textual effects which correspond to the trope metonymy: parts are related to parts with no natural thrust towards synthesis. When one reads the gospel of Mark metonymically, it ceases to function as a story articulating a coherent suffering Messiah Christology. Instead, two contradictory textual ;;logics;; emerge: first, certain textual constellations and discourses suggest the need for the ;;effacement;; of Jesus, the need to reduce his ;;presence;; in order to allow the ;;introjection;; of his message; second, other constellations and discourses suggest the need to retain his narratival ;;presence,;; to ;;encrypt;; him in the textuality of the gospel, to ;;incorporate;; his ;;presence;; in a way which resists epistemic assimilation or identification. My analysis examines these differing ;;logics.;;

[发布机构] Rice University

[效力级别] Biblical