Coercive Names: Interpreting Mark 5:1–13 with Althusser's "Interpellation".
This article addresses a significant lacuna in Markan studies—and specifically in scholarship on Mark 5:1–13—by reading the exorcistic encounter between Jesus and Legion through the hermeneutic lens of Louis Althusser's interpellation theory. The article shows how interpellation provides a compellin...
| Published in: | Biblical Interpretation Vol. 31; no. 3; pp. 356 - 374 |
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2023
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