• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Mark, the Temple and Space: A Geographer's Response
  • Contributor: Sleeman, Matthew
  • imprint: Brill, 2007
  • Published in: Biblical Interpretation
  • Language: Not determined
  • DOI: 10.1163/156851507x184919
  • ISSN: 0927-2569; 1568-5152
  • Keywords: Religious studies
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  • Description: <jats:sec><jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>As a production of space, the Jerusalem temple has multiple dimensions which render a rich material and ideational locale. The paper links interpretation of the Jerusalem temple in Mark's Gospel to a growing interest in spatial theory and narrative spatiality which resists reducing space to either background staging or the realm of ideas. Such theory calls for a genuinely spatialized reading, rather than a privileging of temporality which marginalizes readings for space.</jats:p> </jats:sec>