A Feminist Companion To Mark

By Amy-Jill Levine and Marianne Blickenstaff

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: 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); Joanna Dewey: Let Them Renounce Themselves and Take Up Their Cross A Feminist Reading of Mark 8.34 in Mark s 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 Woman s Story, Revisited: Rereading Mark 7.24-31a; and Marianne Sawicki: Making Jesus; and an introduction by the editor.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841271942
• ISBN13: 9781841271941
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.2"