Mark’s Demonic Christology: Reevaluating the Daimonic Confessions of Jesus’s Messiahship
Markan scholars have often taken for granted that the daimonic acclamations of Jesus’s messianic identity in Mark’s Gospel present the author’s own Christological perspective. Giving attention to daimonic speech in Mark’s literary context, however, opens up the interpretive possibility that this dai...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2024
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2024, Volume: 75, Issue: 1, Pages: 46-62 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mark
/ Classical antiquity
/ Demon
/ Christology
/ Messiah
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| RelBib Classification: | HC New Testament NBF Christology NBH Angelology; demonology TB Antiquity |
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| Summary: | Markan scholars have often taken for granted that the daimonic acclamations of Jesus’s messianic identity in Mark’s Gospel present the author’s own Christological perspective. Giving attention to daimonic speech in Mark’s literary context, however, opens up the interpretive possibility that this daimonic speech may serve to mislead rather than teach. By using insights from the rhetorical practice of prosopopoeia (speech-in-character), this article compares the Christology of Mark’s daimones with a) Jesus’s reliable statements about his own messianic identity and b) Mark’s discursive presentation of the messianic role in order to assess whether the daimonic Christology in Mark’s Gospel is trustworthy or misleading. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flae005 |