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Eric C. Stewart

Gathered around Jesus

An Alternative Spatial Practice in the Gospel of Mark

Cambrige 2009

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MODERN THEORISTS ARE virtually united in understanding that space encodes social practices and power relations. Those who control space exert their control by means of particular spatial practices. Models of critical spatiality, such as that of territoriality, show how social relationships are predominant in the classification, communication, and control of space. Space is seen as a relational category rather than an absolute category.

In this innovative study, Stewart addresses Mark's editorial and/or compositional control over the geographic presentation of Jesus's ministry. He makes the case that Mark presents the world spatially in a manner widely consistent with geographic traditions found in Greek and Roman texts. In Mark, Stewart argues, Jesus offers an alternative spatial practice, one that is centered on himself. The kingdom of God exists spatially in the area around Jesus in which the new community "gathers"

"In a splendid presentation, Eric R. Stewart guides die reader through the intricacies of critical social theory of spatialiry and argues that Mark eschews the space of the synagogue, house, and city in which to locate the movement of Jesus, and instead founds Jesus's movement in the borderland territories of the wilderness/desert, the sea, and the mountain. There Jesus creates die new space of die kingdom of God in gathering people around

himself. This is an important book.-              _ DIETMAR NEUFELD

Associate Professor of Christian Origins Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia

"For the first time in the long scholarly discussion of Mark's problematic geography, Stewart uses both modern spatial theory and an exhaustive review of ancient evidence to demonstrate how Marks spatial perceptions reflect Greek, Roman, and Jewish understandings of human geography. Moving well beyond the anachronistic studies that have dominated the discussion to date, he has provided a significant advance in the study of the Gospel of Mark."

Professor Emeritus of New Testament Lewis and Clark College

Contents

Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xi

1   Mark and Space in Recent Discussion  i

2   Critical SpatialTheory 30

3   Space in Ancient Texts 62

4   Categories for Understanding Ancient Space 12.8

5   The Spatial Presentation of Mark's Gospel  179

6   Conclusion  220

Bibliography 227