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God or Caesar? A Postcolonial-Critical Reading of Mark 12:13-17
上帝或凯撒？对《马可福音》12章13至17节的后殖民解读
摘要
It has been common practice to interpret Jesus's saying on Caesar versus God in the Gospel of Mark 12:13-17 as a separation between religion and politics. This essay shows that a postcolonial reading that takes seriously the complicated web of personal and power dynamics in first-century Palestine yields a Markan Jesus actively taking part in the injustice and oppression his people experienced under the yoke of Roman imperial and colonial policies. Jesus' solution to the Roman problem is not to take up arms in revolt but to appeal to the moral and theological conscience of the local elites put in charge of their own people, Rome's middlemen who do their bidding, the Judean maibans who are more concerned with their personal interests than with the good of their own kinsfolk. Mark's Jesus challenges these collaborators to side with the people, with whom God, the true master of the land, the final source of authority, the real owner of the vineyard, ultimately sides.
並列摘要
人们通常将耶稣在《马可福音》12章13至17节中关于“凯撒的归凯撒，上帝的归上帝”的经文解释为政治与宗教之间的分离。本论文将表明，通过一种后殖民的阅读，严肃地来看待公元一世纪巴勒斯坦的人群及权力之间的复杂体系，可以发现一个马可式的耶稣，他权级地置身于在罗马帝国殖民政策的重负之下、遭受不公与压迫的人民之中。耶稣对罗马问题的解决，不是举起武器造反，而是诉诸于那些管理自已人民的地方精英、投机的罗马中间阶层、那些关心个人甚于同脃利益的犹太买办的道德和神学良知。马可所刻画的耶稣要求这些人与人民站在一起，因为上帝作为这块土地上的真正主宰、最终的权威、葡萄园的真正主人，最终将与人民站在一起。