Feminist Companion to Mark by Amy-Jill Levine, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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. | Feminist Companion to Mark by Amy-Jill Levine, Paperback | Indigo Chapters