Feminist Companion to Mark

By: Amy-Jill Levine

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Paperback | 1 April 2001 | Edition Number 1

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A Feminist Companion to Mark is the second volume of a new series covering the texts and history of Christian origins.There are 11 essays including: Kathleen Corley: Slaves, Servants and Prostitues: Gender and Social Class in Mark; Wendy Cotter: MarkÆs Hero of the Twelfth Year Miracles: The Healing of the Woman with the Hemorrhage and the raising of JairusÆs Daughter (Mark 5.21-43); Joanna Dewey: oLet Them Renounce Themselves and Take Up Their Crosso: A Feminist Reading of Mark 8.34 in MarkÆs Social and Narrative World; Hisako Kinukawa: Women Disciples of Jesus (15.40-41, 15.47, 16.1); Dennis MacDonald: Renowned Far and Wide: the Women who Annointed Odysseus and Jesus; Elizabeth Struthers Malbon: The Poor Widow in Mark and her Poor Rich Readers; Victoria Phillips: The Failure of the Women Who Followed Jesus in the Gospel of Mark; Ranjini Wickramaratne Rebera: The Syrophoenician Woman: A South Asian Feminist Perspective; Sharon H. Ringe: A Gentle WomanÆs Story, Revisited: Rereading Mark 7.24-31a; and Marianne Sawicki: Making Jesus; and an introduction by the editor.

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this collection should be essential reading for all serious students of Mark, including those few scholars who are still wont to dismiss feminist readings as a fad or political. SBL (Journal of Biblical Literature), Spring 2004

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Preface	p. 7
Acknowledgements	p. 8
Abbreviations	p. 9
List of Contributors	p. 11
Introduction	p. 13
'Let Them Renounce Themselves and Take Up their Cross': A Feminist Reading of Mark 8.34 in Mark's Social and Narrative World	p. 23
Simon Peter's Mother-in-Law - Disciple or Domestic Servant? Feminist Biblical Hermeneutics and the Interpretation of Mark 1.29-31	p. 37
Mark's Hero of the Twelfth-Year Miracles: The Healing of the Woman with the Hemorrhage and the Raising of Jairus's Daughter (Mark 5.21-43)	p. 54
A Gentile Woman's Story, Revisited: Rereading Mark 7.24-31a	p. 79
The Syrophoenician Woman: A South Asian Feminist Perspective	p. 101
The Poor Widow in Mark and her Poor Rich Readers	p. 111
Renowned Far and Wide: The Women Who Anointed Odysseus and Jesus	p. 128
Making Jesus	p. 136
Women Disciples of Jesus (15.40-41; 15.47; 16.1)	p. 171
Slaves, Servants and Prostitutes: Gender and Social Class in Mark	p. 191
The Failure of the Women Who Followed Jesus in the Gospel of Mark	p. 222
Bibliography	p. 235
Index of References	p. 252
Index of Authors	p. 258
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