#pairedtexts — Public Fediverse posts

@LauraJG Ooh, an art history #PairedTexts! Interesting!

The sermon today was on Mark 5:21ff (Jesus raises Jairus's daughter and heals the woman with the issue of blood).

It always seemed weird to me that Mark writes this with one interrupting the other, but I never really got why, unless it was just how it happened to happen.

But finally after seeing the repetition of "daughter... daughter... daughter", I realized... Mark is doing a #PairedTexts thing here.

This one story is about the healing of two daughters: Jairus's daughter and the woman Jesus calls "Daughter". And that seems deliberate: I can't find another example of Jesus addressing a woman with the title "Daughter".

So now I'm pondering the parallels and the differences.

@luckytran back on the Bird, we used to call something like this #pairedtexts