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Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Reading Readers of the Gospel of Mark


To argue for a ONE, correct, true interpretation of a text is to force a single truth on a plural world. Interpretation is always perspectival and particular. There is no one, correct, true reading of Mark. There are legion of readers and readings of Mark.
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