Spiraling Shame and Honor Restored?: The Marcan Passion and Resurrection
In this article, I use a New-Historicist literary approach focused on Roman honor to argue that, when read in narrative time, Mark 14-15 portrays Jesus as first losing honor and then experiencing vindication only after an acutely shameful demise. Such a portrayal of Jesus allows the Gospel to partic...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
The catholic biblical quarterly
Year: 2025, Volume: 87, Issue: 2, Pages: 311-333 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mark
/ Historicism
/ Bible. Markusevangelium 14
/ Bible. Markusevangelium 15
/ Disgrace
/ Honor
/ Stoicism
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| IxTheo Classification: | BE Greco-Roman religions HC New Testament TB Antiquity |
| Further subjects: | B
Honor
B Passion B Shame B Gospel of Mark |
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| Summary: | In this article, I use a New-Historicist literary approach focused on Roman honor to argue that, when read in narrative time, Mark 14-15 portrays Jesus as first losing honor and then experiencing vindication only after an acutely shameful demise. Such a portrayal of Jesus allows the Gospel to participate in the cultural task of defining honor. Ultimately, the Gospel portrays Jesus as honorable in much the same way that groups such as the Stoics defined honor: related to virtue and status but not dependent on fame. Rather than promoting an overwhelmingly suffering Jesus or a glorified Jesus, Mark makes Jesus's honor and experience of public shame central to his characterization in the Gospel. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-2529 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The catholic biblical quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/cbq.2025.a958261 |