The Haunting of Jesus: Reading Mark through the Gothic Mode

Spirits and the associated messianic secret play a central role in the Gospel of Mark. In this article I present a Gothic reading of the gospel. In the beginning of Mark, Jesus is driven by a spirit into the wilderness. In this Gothic, liminal space—filled with beasts, demons, and angels—he battles...

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Autor principal:	Tom de Bruin
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Publicado:	University of Sheffield 2021
Materias:	gothic hauntology insanity mark (gospel) messianic secret spirits The Bible BS1-2970
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:7e807758c8444a15ba1afcb693bb1c9b2021-11-18T14:47:01ZThe Haunting of Jesus: Reading Mark through the Gothic Mode2633-069510.17613/8vgs-fe36https://doaj.org/article/7e807758c8444a15ba1afcb693bb1c9b2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://hcommons.org/deposits/view/hc:42750/CONTENT/4-the-haunting-of-jesus-reading-mark-through-the-gothic-mode-tom-de-bruin-63-86.pdf/https://doaj.org/toc/2633-0695Spirits and the associated messianic secret play a central role in the Gospel of Mark. In this article I present a Gothic reading of the gospel. In the beginning of Mark, Jesus is driven by a spirit into the wilderness. In this Gothic, liminal space—filled with beasts, demons, and angels—he battles and overcomes the forces of darkness. Yet evil powers continue to make their presence felt in the rest of the narrative. Gothic literary criticism provides a fruitful domain in which to explore the way the spirits haunt Jesus. Utilising the concept of hauntology, I examine the interplay between Jesus and those that haunt him: the demons and his messianic secret. Gothic theory and hauntology elucidate the dark side to the good news Jesus preaches, demonstrating how Jesus and his good news haunt his followers and Mark himself.Tom de BruinUniversity of Sheffieldarticlegothichauntologyinsanitymark (gospel)messianic secretspiritsThe BibleBS1-2970ENJournal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies, Vol 3, Iss 2, Pp 63-86 (2021)
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description	Spirits and the associated messianic secret play a central role in the Gospel of Mark. In this article I present a Gothic reading of the gospel. In the beginning of Mark, Jesus is driven by a spirit into the wilderness. In this Gothic, liminal space—filled with beasts, demons, and angels—he battles and overcomes the forces of darkness. Yet evil powers continue to make their presence felt in the rest of the narrative. Gothic literary criticism provides a fruitful domain in which to explore the way the spirits haunt Jesus. Utilising the concept of hauntology, I examine the interplay between Jesus and those that haunt him: the demons and his messianic secret. Gothic theory and hauntology elucidate the dark side to the good news Jesus preaches, demonstrating how Jesus and his good news haunt his followers and Mark himself.
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The Haunting of Jesus: Reading Mark through the Gothic Mode

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