“This Generation” from Mark to Judas
On the Hermeneutics of Intra-gospel Reception
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21447147 |
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| Authors | Benjamin A Edsall (0000-0001-8321-9312, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University, Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 549-575 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Study of the New Testament (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0142-064X • E-ISSN: 1745-5294 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0142064x241289867 |
| OpenAlex | W4404225563 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 35 |
Although the reception of Mark has a very long tradition within New Testament studies in discussions of the Synoptic problem or the relation of the Synoptics to John, nevertheless works on reception of the Gospel beyond the New Testament are few. Further, especially for the early period, these works focus primarily on the fact of Markan reception—who knew it and accepted it—rather than its hermeneutical potential. The present essay focuses on this hermeneutical question, tracing the Markan language of “this generation” through its reception, rejection, and adaptation in Gospel literature up to the Gospel of Judas. I argue that this intra-Gospel reception reflects back on Mark itself and illuminate aspects of its interpretive possibilities. Indeed, I aim to show here that Mark’s reception is intrinsic to its possibility for meaning at all and by attending to the ways in which early texts from Matthew to Judas interpret Mark enables one to appreciate the very different ways Mark’s potential meaning is actualized. This argument demonstrates the value of uniting exegetical and diachronic description with a dialogical hermeneutical framework, facilitating mutual interpretation without simple harmonization
Art · Gospel · Hermeneutics · Literature · Theology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Philosophy
Gospels before the Book
The Catena in Marcum
The Reception of Paul and Early Christian Initiation
The Birth of Christian History
An Apostolic Gospel
Why This New Race
Memory, History, Forgetting
“This Generation”
“And it rushed in”
The Eusebian Canon Tables
The Gospel as Manuscript
The Gospel of Judas
Modern and Ancient Literary Criticism of the Gospels
From Unfulled Rag to New Cloak
| Highly cited | No |
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