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Title | The Things of Caesar: Mark-ing the Plural (Mk 12:13-17) |
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Author | Carter, Warren |
Date | 2014-09-02 |
Abstract | This article observes the rarely-discussed phenomenon that the Marcan paying-the-tax scene refers to tax in the singular, whilst the concluding saying uses the plural 'the things of Caesar and of God'. The article accounts for this phenomenon by means of developing traditions. The section under the heading 'Mark's scene and saying about taxes (12:13-17)' counters the common claim that scene and saying originated as a unit from the historical Jesus. It proposes that whilst the saying may have originated with Jesus, the scene as we have it did not. The section under the heading 'Social memory, orality, and a multi-referential saying?' suggests some contexts that the saying about the things of Caesar addressed pre-Mark. And under the section 'Trauma and Mark's scene' it is argued that Mark created a unit comprising scene and saying to negotiate the ' trauma' of the 66-70 war. The unit evaluates freshly-asserted Roman power as idolatrous and blasphemous whilst simultaneously authorising the continued involvement of Jesus-believers in imperial society. |
Link | https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v70i1.2656
https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/35820 https://hts.org.za/index.php/HTS/article/view/2656 |
Department | Brite Divinity School |
Subject | Jesus Christ--historicity
Jesus Christ--teachings Bible--Mark--criticism and redaction Bible--Mark--language and style Bible--Mark--theology Politics in the Bible Psychic trauma imperialism taxation--biblical teaching collective memory Jews--history 63 BC-70 AD |
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