Description:
Reading the Gospel of Mark with a 'diasporic consciousness' that refuses to ideal ize anything, I question many liberational readings that present Mark in purely positive terms. Rather than dismissing the anti-colonial elements within the Gospel, I proceed to probe Mark for traces of 'colonial mimicry'. I argue in this essay that Mark reinscribes colonial domination by attributing absolute authority to Jesus, pre serving the 'insider-outsider binarism and understanding authority as power. Despite Mark's declaration of an apocalypse, it embraces recurring themes of 'empire' like tyranny, boundary and might.