McDonald Lecture with Brian K. Blount, the 2024-2025 Alonzo L. McDonald Family Chair on the Life and Teachings of Jesus and Their Impact on Culture.
Narratively speaking, how is Jesus of Nazareth “colored” in the Gospel of Mark? This lecture will interrogate the correlation between Jesus’s actions and his racialization. Jesus’s boundary breaking activity, and the assertiveness in which he engages that activity, hint at a “color” that fits a particular racial performative.