Mark and Luke in Poststructuralist Perspectives: Jesus Begins to Write

by Stephen D. Moore

Book Overview

"What is the lesson of that other, newly sprung tree (the cross) in whose bark Mark has carved his Gospel (for this is a book that bleeds)? Is it that Jesus's body, grafted onto the cross, became one with it, and thus became tree, branch, book, and leaf, inscribed with letters of blood, can now at last be read, no longer an indecipherable code but an open codex? And that in its (now) re(a)d(able) ink, lately invisible, the message that was scratched...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300051972
• ISBN13: 9780300051971
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"