Originally published: Sheffield, Eng. : Sheffield Academic Press, 2001. Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-251) and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction / Amy-Jill Levine -- "Let them renounce themselves and take up their cross" : a feminist reading of Mark 8.34 in Mark's social and narrative world / Joanna Dewey -- Simon Peter's mother-in-law -disciple or domestic servant? Feminist biblical hermeneutics and the interpretation of Mark 1.29-31 / Deborah Krause -- 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) / Wendy Cotter CSJ -- A gentile woman's story, revisited : rereading Mark 7.24-31a / Sharon H. Ringe -- The Syrophoenician woman : a South Asian feminist perspective / Ranjini Wickramaratne Rebera -- The poor widow in Mark and her poor rich readers / Elizabeth Struthers Malbon -- Renowned far and wide : the woman who anointed Odysseus and Jesus/ Dennis R. MacDonald -- Making Jesus / Marianne Sawicki -- Women disciples of Jesus (15.40-41; 15.47; 16.1) / Hisako Kinukawa -- Slaves, servants and prostitutes : gender and social class in Mark / Kathleen E. corley -- The failure of the women who followed Jesus in the Gospel of Mark / Victoria Phillips.
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