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A Study of the Markan Spatial Turn: Galilee and the Jerusalem Temple Roh Sik Park (Kangnam University) This paper calls for a genuinely spatial reading of Mark, rather than privileging temporality which marginalizes spatial readings. This paper intends to analyze the spatial strategy of Mark’s Gospel. As a production of the spatial strategy, Galilee has multiple dimensions which render a rich material and theological locale. The paper implies a wider understanding of Markan Galilee within a more comprehensive Markan spatial strategy. The Gospel of Mark was produced out of the conflict of values from which new notions of sacred space were able to emerge. Galilee in Mark’s Gospel suggests a narrative space to which followers might order and orient their lives. Jesus’ actions and words in Mark’s Gospel teach his viewers how to define and relate the sacred space of the temple. The followers of Jesus orient themselves to the way of conceiving the sacred space as articulated in the actions of loving God and neighbor. Galilee in Mark’s Gospel appears to function as the centre of the Kingdom of God.