The article traces the dialectical unfolding involved in the Markan naked young man text (Mark 14:51-52). It follows the dialectical process of (1) Jesus’s seizure; (2) the young man’s seizure which diminishes the impact of Jesus’s seizure; (3) the young man’s non-seizure and absence; and (4) the young man’s return to presence through reification of his garment. Finally, it focuses on the last dialectical moment in which the Gospel of Mark text seizes the young man and Jesus.
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W. Barclay, The Gospel of Mark (Philadelphia: Westminster, rev. edn, 1975), pp. 247-48; S. Johnson, “The Identity and Significance of the Neaniskos in Mark,” Forum 8 (1992), pp. 123-39. See also the suggestions in H. Swete, The Gospel According to St Mark (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1952), p. 354.
M. Haren, “The Naked Young Man: A Historian’s Hypothesis on Mark 14, 51-52,” Bib 79 (1998), pp. 525-31.
M. Smith, Clement of Alexandria and a Secret Gospel of Mark (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973), pp. 176-77; M. Meyer, “The Youth in the Secret Gospel of Mark,” Semeia 49 (1990), pp. 129-53.
A. Vanhoye, “La fuite du jeune homme nu (Mc 14, 51-52),” Bib 52 (1971), pp. 401-406 (404); Johnson, “The Identity and Significance of the Neaniskos in Mark,” pp. 125-26; A. Kuruvilla, “The Naked Runaway and the Enrobed Reporter of Mark 14 and 16: What Is the Author Doing with What He Is Saying?,” JETS 54 (2011), pp. 527-45 (541-42).
J. Theriault, “Le ‘jeune homme’ dans le récit de la passion chez Marc,” Sémiotique et Bible 104 (2001), pp.24-41 (36). R. Scroggs and K. Groff (“Baptism in Mark: Dying and Rising with Christ,” JBL 92 [1973], pp. 531-48) view the young man as a symbolic pointer to the Christian baptismal initiate, and representative of Jesus Christ.
H. Fleddermann, “The Flight of a Naked Young Man (Mark 14:51-52),” CBQ 41 (1979), pp. 412-18 (418); H. Jackson, “Why the Youth Shed His Cloak and Fled Naked: The Meaning and Purpose of Mark 14:51-52,” JBL 116 (1997), pp. 273-89 (279-80); J. Edwards, The Gospel According to Mark (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2002), pp. 440-41. For a summary of views about 14:51-52, see A. Collins, Mark: A Commentary (Hermeneia; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007), pp. 688-95.
Hegel, Phenomenology, p. 51. Thought is a development in which a form is shown to be incomplete by its own standards, and postulates an alternative form (a determinate negation) that meets the same standards. It is, as Hegel wrote (Phenomenology, p. 2) “the progressive unfolding of truth.”
S. Žižek, The Parallax View (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2009), pp. 45-46.
G. Hegel, Hegel’s Science of Logic (trans. A. Miller; Atlantic Highlands: Humanities International, 1969), p. 402.
S. Moore, Mark and Luke in Poststructuralist Perspectives: Jesus Begins to Write (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992), p. 31. See also S. Moore, “Deconstructive Criticism: The Gospel of Mark,” in J. Anderson and S. Moore (eds.), Mark & Method: New Approaches in Biblical Studies (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992), pp. 84-102 (93-94).
K. Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (trans. B. Fowkes; London: Penguin, 1976), vol. 1, pp. 164-65.
Aristophanes, The Lysistrata; The Thesmophoriazusae; The Ecclesiazusae; The Plutus (trans. B. Rogers; LCL; Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1924), esp. lines 213-67 and 635-752; see E. Bobrick, “The Tyranny of Roles: Playacting and Privilege in Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae,” in G. Dobrov (ed.), The City as Comedy: Society and Representation in Athenian Drama (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997), p. 178.
M. Blanchot, The Space of Literature (trans. A. Smock; Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982), pp. 33, 91, 142, 148-49, 223; J. Derrida, Dissemination (trans. B. Johnson; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), pp. 15, 26-29, 56-57, 63.
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The article traces the dialectical unfolding involved in the Markan naked young man text (Mark 14:51-52). It follows the dialectical process of (1) Jesus’s seizure; (2) the young man’s seizure which diminishes the impact of Jesus’s seizure; (3) the young man’s non-seizure and absence; and (4) the young man’s return to presence through reification of his garment. Finally, it focuses on the last dialectical moment in which the Gospel of Mark text seizes the young man and Jesus.
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