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Welcoming a Child as a Metaphor for Welcoming God's Kingdom: A Close Reading of Mark 10.13-16

Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Ave, Villanova, PA 19085, USA, peter.spitaler{at}villanova.edu

The purpose of this article is threefold: to analyze the structural markers in Mk 10.13-16 that signal that the reader should render the simile in 10.15 `welcoming the kingdom of God as one welcomes a child', to sketch the narrative and symbolic functions of this simile within its immediate literary context, and to highlight those aspects of 10.13-16 that indicate this passage is an expanded Markan relecture of 9.33-37.

Key Words: Children • simile • status • kingdom • welcoming • hospitality • discipleship • narrative meaning • symbolic meaning

Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Vol. 31, No. 4, 423-446 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0142064X09104959


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